<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Humans are preadapted to learn at twice the pace.  The students are ready.  The teachers and school systems are not.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">To the society which first figures out there is a better way to do education will go rewards beyond our imagination.<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike</span></p></font></span>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)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:05 AM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_2668354419460405950WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><br><b><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">It's called prepared learning - meaning learning that comes easily because there is a strong genetic basis for it.  </span>…<span style="color:black">.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">So just be on the alert for types of learning.  Nothing is completely genetic, no matter how important it is for the creature.</span>…<span style="color:black">bill w</span><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Cool, so prepared learning is related to, or is a special case of what Gould would call preadaptation. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">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 education.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Humans are preadapted to learn at twice the pace.  The students are ready.  The teachers and school systems are not.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">To the society which first figures out there is a better way to do education will go rewards beyond our imagination.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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