An article that's been floating around my head a lot over the past week is David Brooks's recent cover story for The Atlantic—"How America Got Mean." The article covers a lot of ground, but there's one thing that jumped out at me: the question of what education is for. It got me wondering: Why did … Continue reading On wondering what education is for
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On the content of the lesson
Yesterday, I mentioned one takeaway from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Here is another, though really it is a nod toward John Dewey: John Dewey wrote in Experience and Education, "Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only what he is studying at the time. Collateral learning … Continue reading On the content of the lesson
Taylor Coe 