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If millennials are more narcissistic, it's because they've grown up with social networks where they can get their ego stroked. If anything, the next generation
by CuriouslyC 10y ago
If millennials are more narcissistic, it's because they've grown up with social networks where they can get their ego stroked. If anything, the next generation is going to be much worse. But hey, Facebook is progress, right?
The education system does a terrible job of teaching people how to be creative. Educators don't even understand creativity, how can they teach it? Creativity in school is usually a code-word for "this work won't be graded for content".
Rote learning has been shown time and time again to be the least effective, least engaging, most dispiriting form of learning. You want someone to learn something? Let them choose from some projects where the thing you want them to learn is required to complete it. That works much better, but unfortunately it's not so convenient for teachers. There's a reason people pick up languages quickly from immersion learning, and frequently not at all from traditional language classes.
Ultimately, effective dreaming isn't about imagining yourself being at the goal post, i.e. being a millionaire or actor. That form of dream is like a mental opiate that actually saps your motivation. Effective dreaming involves imagining yourself overcoming challenges and taking action to move towards your goal. That sort of dreaming actually motivates people to act.
- cletus 10y agohttp://www.businessinsider.com/direct-instruction-vs-inquiry-learning-2015-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/direct-instruction-vs-inquiry...
- CuriouslyC 10y agoAs a counter example, students in Finland do even better than their Chinese counterparts, with a more flexible instructional curriculum than most western nations, and less homework (in many cases, none). They're also happier, both while in school and as a culture, which is what really matters. To heap some anecdotes on the pile, every really sharp autodidact I've ever met or read about takes a functional, project-first approach to learning. I've never met anyone exceptional that focused on rote memorization. I did meet one good mathematician who would go cover to cover solving problems out of advanced textbooks, but he viewed them as fun puzzles like you might view sudoku.
- ctchocula 10y agoI am wondering whether this is subject matter specific. For math, I've heard Freeman Dyson write when he was a child "I had read some of the popular literature about Einstein and relativity, and had found it very unsatisfying. Always when I thought I was getting close to the heart of the matter, the author would say, 'But if you really want to understand Einstein you have to understand differential equations,' or words to that effect." Later on, he goes on to say how he ordered Differential Equations by H. T. Piaggio with over seven hundred problems, most of which he solved over Christmas vacation. Then when he attempted Peter Eddington's Mathematical Theory of Relativity, it came very easily after the differential equations practice. Then for something like software engineering, I can imagine that a "project-first approach" as you call it may work well.