I think the most damaging thing I learned in school was that the “right answer” would always be something I had been specifically taught that didn’t require all that much thinking for myself. Wtf. I consciously unlearned it in college, but subconsciously I’m still not sure...https://twitter.com/William_Blake/status/1203348802679083008 …
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Divia Eden Retweeted Robin Hanson
This is where he loses me. Maybe the deal is that I went to a good school (I did). But my experience of k-12 was that the kids who did well on the tests pretty much all understood the material they were being tested on. Anyone else?https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1203380537408327682?s=20 …
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In my experience, actually knowing the material is common for about a week around the test, but students don't learn it deeply enough to remember afterwards. In personal experience, there are a few (college) classes I don't care about where I'll skip classes and then cram.
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And then I do well enough in the class despite barely knowing the material, because I never bothered to actually learn it. But this is an unusual method for me and I don't like it, I much prefer classes that I learn things in.
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