Glossary
This text is part of: "I would never send my kids to school" by Piotr Wozniak (2017)
- Biphasic sleep - sleep in two blocks: night and siesta
- Childhood amnesia - natural long-term memory deficit in children
- Cloze deletion - question in the form of a sentence in which a keyword is replaced with 3 dots
- Democratic school - school run by kids with minimum adult supervision
- Forgetting curve - curve showing loss of knowledge over time
- Free running sleep - sleep that is not artificially regulated (e.g. with alarm clocks, medication, etc.)
- Fundamental law of learning - law stating that efficient learning is always pleasurable
- Homeschooling - home-based education
- Idiocracy problem - problem of smart people having few or late children
- Incremental learning - method for mastering knowledge from the web (fast and durable)
- Learn drive - natural curiosity that drives learning
- Learned helplessness - loss of drives in conditions of loss of control
- Learntropy - measure of attractiveness of a lecture, book, etc.
- Memory complexity - complexity of memory that determines how difficult it is to retain it
- Memory optimization - process in which memories get better organized in sleep
- Minimum information principle - claim that simple memories are easy to retain for longer
- Natural creativity cycle - undisturbed sleep-wake cycle that maximizes creativity
- Polyphasic sleep - unhealthy sleep practice in which sleep is dispersed in many small blocks throughout the day
- Retrievability - probability of recall of a given memory
- Spaced repetition - learning technique that ensures long-term retention of knowledge
- Spacing effect - better memory effect of review delayed in time
- Stability - durability of a given memory
- Toxic memory - persistent memory that leads to anxiety
- Unschooling - learning without the pressure of the curriculum