recommended reading on education? I'm looking for everything from theory to niche insight
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Compiling some of my favorite recourses below
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A brief mission statement by the headmaster of the school I went to K-12 and adored (interesting combination of classical methods & preparatory ed )https://twitter.com/yellowjinwook/status/1095389290064945159?s=21 …
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"The Lost Tools of Learning" by Dorothy Sayers https://gbt.org/text/sayers.html … - the iconic text of classical education
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"Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy throughout Western Europe is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement & mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of?"
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"Or do you sometimes have an uneasy suspicion that the product of modern educational methods is less good than he or she might be at disentangling fact from opinion and the proven from the plausible?"
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"We fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think: they learn everything, except the art of learning."
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"Do you often come across people for whom, all their lives, a "subject" remains a "subject," divided by watertight bulkheads from all other "subjects," so that they experience very great difficulty in making an immediate mental connection between [any two subjects]"pic.twitter.com/c30fhhKC8Y
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Replying to @nwilliams030
"Deschooling Society" (Illich), "Why Children Fail" (Holt), "Summerhill" (A. S. Neill, first edition, later version were messed up by Neill's successors), "Mindstorms" (Papert), "An Early History of Smalltalk" (Alan Kay, the education section).
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Excuse me, the Holt book is "How Children Fail" (not Why)
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