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{{Motto|'''Motto:''' is some witty idea or quote from some wise man, usually from ages ago. A quote that sets the theme for a chapter. Those witticisms often help us realize that we are re-learning history over and over again. The ancients knew things many people fail to see today}} | {{Motto|'''Motto:''' is some witty idea or quote from some wise man, usually from ages ago. A quote that sets the theme for a chapter. Those witticisms often help us realize that we are re-learning history over and over again. The ancients knew things many people fail to see today}} | ||
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Revision as of 17:59, 19 August 2017
Intro
For years I have focused on the idea of self-directed learning. I love learning with SuperMemo. I have long forgotten my 22 long years of schooling. Each time someone asked me about the perfect modern educational system, I would say I have no idea. I like self-learning. However, I have reached a breaking point. I know dozens of kids and teens. Some of them are users of SuperMemo, some are kids of my friends or family, others I know from a football field. They almost universally hate school. The older they are, the more intense the feeling. To me, learning is one of the most enjoyable things in the world. Why would school be such torture. In late August 2016, the heat of the summer was unbearable. I love the optimism that comes with the sun. It stood in stark contrast with those long faces of kids who knew that in a few days, they would have to go to school again.
Then I vowed "I would never send my kids to school".
I decided to investigate, and collected a lot of material. I see that we fail our kids dismally. Education is based on wrong principles and wrong design. This article tries to explain the problem and suggest some solutions.
Chapters
Chapters that are missing in the printable version are marked with "*"
Brain science
- Learn drive
- Pleasure of learning
- Natural creativity cycle
- Baby management
- How baby brain does not work
- Daycare misery
- Stress resilience
- Confusing creativity with ADHD *
The system
- Why kids hate school?
- Schools suppress the learn drive
- Learned helplessness vs. learn drive
- Schools are useless in teaching English! *
- Learning history: school vs. self-directed learning *
- Tug of war: child's passions
- Modern schooling is like Soviet economy *
Homeschooling
Information science
SuperMemo
Summary
Glossary
References
Missing pages
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Your contributions
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Colorful inserts
Motto: is some witty idea or quote from some wise man, usually from ages ago. A quote that sets the theme for a chapter. Those witticisms often help us realize that we are re-learning history over and over again. The ancients knew things many people fail to see today
Tentative Table of Contents (as of Feb 2017)
Table of contents
Kool Kids
- Article
- Motto!
- Introduction
- My qualifications
- Autumn depression
- Goals of the article
- Brain science and education
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- Baby brain
- Childhood amnesia
- Measuring childhood amnesia
- Measuring childhood amnesia
- Perfect learning machines
- How baby brain does not work
- Childhood amnesia
- The push zone
- Learn drive
- Learn drive and entropy
- Pleasure of learning
- Accelerated development
- Speech development acceleration
- Introduction to mathematics
- Speech development acceleration
- Reward and punishment
- Confusing creativity with ADHD
- SuperMemo does not work for kids
- Knowledge Crystallization
- Baby brain
- Day care problem
- Chronic stress resistance is not trainable
- Myth: kindergarten accelerates speech development
- Daycare misery
- Infections
- Chronic stress resistance is not trainable
- School problem
- Why kids hate school?
- Early schooling
- Learned helplessness vs. learn drive
- Schools suppress the learn drive
- Schools suppress creativity
- Genius Checklist
- Dangers of being a Straight A student
- How schooling helped SuperMemo (not)
- Genius Checklist
- Anti-circadian schooling
- Schools are useless in teaching English!
- Tug of war: child passions
- Compulsion prevents learning
- Teacher's moral choices
- Does reading fiction make us better?
- Teacher's moral choices
- The power of self-directed learning
- My knowledge of history
- I never paid attention
- History from the point of view of a high school graduate
- Tanya: Harfmul futility of schooling
- Impact of schooling on self-esteem
- My knowledge of history
- Optimization of Education
- Modern Schooling is like Soviet economy
- A joke: Polish education reform
- Free market vs. competition
- Modern Schooling is like Soviet economy
- Peer dependence
- Puppy in prison
- Fidgeting is good
- Fidgeting is good
- Micromanagement with Dual CEOs
- Standardized testing
- Mindless cramming
- Cannot skip a class?
- Alcohol, smoking and drugs
- Crime games
- How to become a bully?
- Schoolyard predators
- Homeschooling
- Democratic schools
- Parents beat teachers
- Who gives up on homeschooling?
- Socialization
- Bad days for learning
- Fostering genius
- Formula for genius
- Talent or Practice
- Formula for genius
- Parallel societies vs. Social contract
- On freedom of education and freedom of information
- Tribute to the Pioneers
- Peter Gray on peers and deschooling
- Marek Budajczak
- Peter Gray on peers and deschooling
- European Outcasts: Sweden and Germany
- Socialization
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- High and low social skills
- Socialization pathologies inherent to schooling
- Bullying is Game Theoretic!
- High and low social skills
- Schools
- When schools are a blessing
- Teachers
- Fantastic teachers
- Teacher sentiments
- My worst teacher
- Fantastic teachers
- Great teachers change the world
- The system changes teachers
- I am a great teacher
- Mixing up peers
- Physical education: good or bad?
- Murderous instincts
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- Summary: Why schools fail, and how to remedy the problem
- The reform
- Action points
- Read more
- Summary