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I was genuinely impressed how good the "before" answers were. Many adults refuse to accept that they don't know something and will rather invent a fictitious an
by baobabKoodaa 3y ago
I was genuinely impressed how good the "before" answers were. Many adults refuse to accept that they don't know something and will rather invent a fictitious answer, start believing in it and proclaim it as fact - but many of these kindergarteners actually said "I don't know". Stunning emotional maturity! Also, the ones who answered yes or no were mostly able to craft arguments supporting their position. I didn't know kids are that smart.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoKids these days are indeed very willing to admit when they don't know things! I do suspect the openness is downstream of the slow cultural realization that there is just too much to know for any one human being to truly know it all. Smart parents are more willing than ever on the margin to say they don't know things, and the children learn from that example that this is okay to admit.
- OmarShehata 3y ago"I didn't know kids are that smart." Yes!! I wish more people recognized this. There's a "Free Range Kids"[0] movement growing out of this fact. A lot of people have ended up in a place where unstructured/unsupervised time is seen as a "waste" for kids, but I think this is the wrong direction. I think Khan Academy's new experimental high school[1] is also built around this fact (that kids are smart & just need access to resources & meaningful work) [0] https://www.freerangekids.com/ https://www.freerangekids.com/ [1] https://khanlabschool.org/About-Khan-Lab-School https://khanlabschool.org/About-Khan-Lab-School
- lozenge 3y agoAt that age, isn't not knowing the default, and experienced many times every day? I wonder when we swap to assuming we know or can deduce everything.
- Staple_Diet 3y ago[dead]
- ksaj 3y agoWhen they started adding the possibility of a "FAIL" to their tests.