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I think he's right...but....doesn't there need to be a basis for that creative thinking? It seems to me that the early "memorization" of stuff (elementary scho
by endlessvoid94 17y ago
I think he's right...but....doesn't there need to be a basis for that creative thinking? It seems to me that the early "memorization" of stuff (elementary school and middle school) is pretty essential. It's pretty hard for MOST people to understand calculus without first being able to solve 2x + 3 = 15
- chrischen 17y agoI think it might be interesting to study when the optimal time to learn addition would be. Different people might learn at different paces, so letting people learn naturally might be a better way for these things to be introduced at the optimal time, rather than forced at some suboptimal time. I think that's the main benefit in free-form learning, and that's to optimize learning by interest. So for example rather than forcing all kids to learn addition in first grade (or is it earlier?), we could introduce them to more general topics, and allow a bigger range of time for the children to naturally approach those topics. So the some children might develop an interest for it at 3rd grade or 2nd, etc. But it would be optimized by interest, and school would serve the purpose of creating the interest (to induce learning), rather than forcing the learning.