References
This text is part of: "I would never send my kids to school" by Piotr Wozniak (2017)
Neuroscience
- Learning acceleration via stress
- Curiosity improves learning
- Brain centers involved in valuation of anticipated outcomes: nucleus accumbens and VTA
- Opioid receptors form a gradient along a processing hierarchy
- Opioid receptors are involved in the pleasure of learning
- Opioid rewards may depend on dopamine signals
- Neural circuits involved in liking and wanting
- Thrill of music may be attenuated with opioid antagonists
- Impact of syncopation on the pleasure of music
- Stress reduces neurogenesis
- Amygdala may be involved in rewarding novel input
- Behavioral effects of maternal separation and early weaning
- Stress inoculation may improve resilience later in life
- Chronic, acute and intermittent stress exposure
- Bullying changes the brain
Memory
- Infantile amnesia caused by neurogenesis
- Linear increase in memory retention
- How autobiographical memories fade in time
- Spaced learning favors survival of neurons
Creativity
- Darwin intuitively followed the natural creativity cycle
- Best students intuitively follow the natural creativity cycle
- Robinson: Schools kill creativity
- Creativity: Asset or Burden?
- Coincidence of ADHD and creativity
Self-directed learning
- Early Academic Training Retards Intellectual Development
- Gray: Self-education carries a high cost in time
- Greenberg: How schools vitiate the concept of life-long learning
Students
- I wish I had dropped out
- Gray: School is prison
- I became so depressed that I stopped going to school
Teachers
Schools
- Schools provide a babysitting service
- Schools do not tolerate diversity
- Gray about Willingham
- Robinson: Schools kill creativity
- Michalko: Schools kill creativity
- Bill Gates: Teaching is hard
- Wieman: Lectures make no sense
- John Bennett: Problem with math instruction
- John Taylor Gatto: I refuse to hurt children
- Curiosity is not a priority
- Factory model of education
- Alfie Kohn: Praise is a short-term motivator
College
Homeschooling
- Parents do not homeschool because education is not top priority
- Homeschooling socialization is a non-issue
- Modernization kills fundamentalism
Childhood
- Infantile amnesia caused by neurogenesis
- Homo habilis: the emergence of childhood
- Hunter-gatherer childhood
- Childcare predicts socioemotional problems
- Suggate: early reading is not essential
Daycare
- Raymond Moore: On early institutionalization
- Nordic ideas on compulsory daycare
- Chronic otitis media and language development
- Otitis media in daycare
Sleep
Mental health
- Indiscriminate action of psychiatric drugs
- Coincidence of ADHD and creativity
- Fidgeting may improve cognitive performance
- Incremental increase in depression
- On ADHD over or under-diagnosis
- International Consensus Statement on ADHD
Socialization
- Moore: Socialization myth
- Gray: Solution to bullying
- Gray: Informal sports favor socialization
- Alfie Kohn: Praise sparks fake generosity
Information science
Politics
- Education as a human right
- Freedom undermines public schools
- Quarter of German population has migrant roots
- Quarter of Swedish population has migrant roots
- Why Spotify might leave Sweden
- German innovation is in decline