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What's the point of school?

Mar 14, 2017 | Category: Featured

Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at.Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate Schools have only ever existed in cultures where culturally specific knowledge...

#Steven Pinker #evolutionary psychology #AS Neill

Education isn't natural - that's why it's hard

Feb 23, 2017 | Category: psychology

One of the most troubling conundrums in the field of education is that the common sense observation that children learn so many things simply by virtue of being immersed in an appropriate environment ...

#David Geary #evolutionary psychology #John Sweller

Robots, evolution and why schools shouldn't worry about innate skills

Oct 13, 2016 | Category: learning

It should come as little surprise to hear that some of what human beings can do is innate. That is to say, we are born with various capacities and abilities which appear to be 'hardwired' into our bra...

#David Geary #evolutionary psychology

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