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Is it just me or is Sugata Mitra an irresponsible charlatan?

Nov 23, 2015 | Category: myths
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.Ralph Waldo Emerson When I first saw physicist, Sugata Mitra speak about his Hole in the Wall exper...
#Sugata Mitra #Tom Bennett #ED Hirsch #Daisy Christodoulou #Kieran Egan #Donald Clark

Some tentative thoughts about evidence in education

Aug 29, 2014 | Category: Featured
To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.Robert A. Heinlein I've been thinking hard about the natur...
#Wittgenstein #research #Gert Biesta #Kieran Egan

I ♥ rote learning

Aug 26, 2014 | Category: learning
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.St. Basil I've been reading and enjoying Getting it Wrong from the B...
#Daniel Willingham #Joshua Foer #Kieran Egan #Poetry by Heart #rote learning

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