Sublime

Benjamin Barber, an eminent political theorist, once said, “I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. . . . I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.”

It turned out that many of the other students had access to the prof’s old tests. They knew roughly what the professor was going to be covering—and that the special assumption would probably be on the test. After discovering what the other students were up to, Barb started interacting more with her fellow students to make sure she had access to the

The fixed mindset, plus stereotyping, plus women’s trust in other people’s assessments of them: All of these contribute to the gender gap in math and science.

Le principe de linéarité fonctionne pour l’industrie, non pour les humains. Enseigner aux enfants par groupes d’âge laisse supposer qu’ils aient pour principal point commun leur date de fabrication. Dans la pratique, des élèves différents apprennent à des rythmes différents selon les disciplines. Un enfant doué dans un domaine peut très bien peiner

The popular notion that you learn better when you receive instruction in a form consistent with your preferred learning style, for example as an auditory or visual learner, is not supported by the empirical research. People do have multiple forms of intelligence to bring to bear on learning, and you learn better when you “go wide,” drawing on all o

should use one of the two different techniques.

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