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Indeed! Per Kay: perhaps we should instead be optimizing “number of Sistine Chapel ceilings per generation.” vpri.org/pdf/hc_pers_co
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I get the impression that self-directed learning is tested by the perverse question: “When students are free to be different and learn what they like how they like, do they nevertheless turn out the same, and learn precisely and only what I want them to know - efficiently?”
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Are you implying that the Sistine Chapel ceiling is an exemplar of self-directed work? If so, I’m not sure that’s right. Pope Julius II coerced Michelangelo to do the painting. The artist himself would have much rather kept to his sculpture.
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True. But here, it’s an example of something beautiful and good in itself, rather than an exam, which isn’t. Really, though, there is no single measure of progress - not in education, technology, or anything else. No single metric to optimize. People choose their own rewards.
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