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Learning How Not What

Thanks to technology there is diminishing value in memorizing facts. Critical thinking, the ability to analyze facts to form judgements, is a valuable skill to come out of any academic system.


Let's not optimize educating people so they remember just enough to repeat what they heard and get it right on the test.


It's hard to exaggerate the difference between teaching someone what to think versus how to think.

 
 
 

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