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[William Flynn Wallace]

Humans are preadapted to learn at twice the pace.  The students are ready.
The teachers and school systems are not.



To the society which first figures out there is a better way to do
education will go rewards beyond our imagination.



spike
I don't know about preadapted to twice the pace.  But the main problem, as
I see it, is that education research is done by educators. !!!!!!  You
cannot imagine the standards being as low as they are.  (I also don't know
about Gould's term)

All the time spent running rats was not wasted, but not doing much more
with humans was a big mistake for psychologists.  But I think the cognitive
learning people are going to do good things with education - maybe in my
lifetime?

bill w

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:05 AM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> >…It's called prepared learning - meaning learning that comes easily
> because there is a strong genetic basis for it.  ….
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> >…So just be on the alert for types of learning.  Nothing is completely
> genetic, no matter how important it is for the creature.…bill w
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> Cool, so prepared learning is related to, or is a special case of what
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> Excellent observation BillW.  This leads to my strong contention that
> humans are preadapted to learn far more efficiently the lessons we map for
> their primary education in half the time we allot to it.  This is a
> collective failure to fully take advantage of technologies currently
> available for teaching and learning.  We are stuck to the notion of
> teaching students in the format of a single lecturer and a group of
> students learning a long-established curriculum, the factory model of
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> Humans are preadapted to learn at twice the pace.  The students are
> ready.  The teachers and school systems are not.
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> To the society which first figures out there is a better way to do
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> spike
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