Schooling Has a Meaning Crisis. Paradoxically, AI Can Help
All about alternative schooling, homeschooling, unschooling, and microschooling in India. We share guides to paths beyond traditional schooling that are being explored and rediscovered as our world changes rapidly.
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Education has four main dimensions: meaning, motivation, mechanics, and measurement. That also happens to be the natural order of things when it comes to learning. Everything we do is to do justice to this natural order.Conventional schooling has it exactly backwards because of a well-intentioned, but ultimately counterproductive focus on measurement: what are they learning.Everything we know about learning, whether it is from practical sensible empirical knowledge, or the latest neuroscience screams out that we need to find meaning first.“The effect of the early introduction of arithmetic had been to dull and almost chloroform the child’s reasoning faculties.”“What possible needs has a ten-year-old child for knowledge of long division? The whole subject of arithmetic could be postponed…
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