Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

And here’s an obvious trick: The best way to learn how the world works is to realize how connected everything is. The big lessons from one field can often teach you something critical about other fields.

We’re usually taught as if math is math and chemistry is chemistry, with each field siloed off in its own department, focused on its own truths.

But

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They concluded that the ancillary benefits of “mental discipline” were “mythological” and that general skills, like memorization, were not nearly as transferable as had once been thought. “Pedagogues quickly realized that Thorndike’s experiments had undermined the rationale for the traditional curriculum,” writes the historian of education Diane Ra

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