What percentage of the exams you passed in high school do you believe you could pass now? (Some work has been done on retention of high school material: the results are very, very disappointing.)
If you're a school consultant who thinks "learning is hard and boring a lot of the time," your win condition is a bunch of kids who look frustrated and bored a lot of the time.https://twitter.com/stshank/status/1061782020840349696 …
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Your doctor probably can't remember all the bones in the human body but I'd guess you both like that they once did.
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Do you believe it's reasonable to think you'll retain information delivered via lecture about something you absolutely do not care about? Do you believe it's a character defect if you fail to? If so, why?
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How much of the material presented to you in a formal educational context did you actually ever need? How much did you actually believe you'd need?
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Do you have any evidence for this?
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The idea of having “an education” that endows you with most of the basic facts you’ll need for life runs counter to everything we know about memory. If you want to remember something, use is not optional. This is why e.g. Anki works — it creates a use case for discrete facts
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Learning described as hard and boring indicates that the subjects, or mode of teaching, being taught exist on the threshold of cognitive aptitude, and beyond the threshold of interest. On the basis of this alone, it's time to audit the teachers and whoever creates the curricula
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Far from enough. Change laws that require children to attend school. Truancy laws are the enemy. Eliminate compulsory schooling so “how best to learn” becomes something to be solved by the free market. (Entrenched socialist education “systems” have an interest in the status quo.)
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Wow, that quote is just such a bad take. I'm always sort of flabbergasted when people don't check their priors. Even if you wholeheartedly believe that learning is hard and boring, all you'd have to do is make like a toddler and ask "Why is that? / Why can't it be easy / fun?"
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* bangs head against wall *
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