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ML174: Barbara Oakley on Learning Like a Pro, Uncommon Sense Teaching and The Value of Procedural Learning

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What's Going on in Education?

It's fascinating to hear you talk about that sort of battle between skinner and chomsky in that context. You would hope that given what is at stake, rite the sort of evolution of a future society, ah, that there would be a more productive dialogue going on there. So it's ashamed to hear, yes. A, i think probably one, a, one of the perfect examples of what's going on in education was this nine year experiment where they found direct instruction worked better than all other approaches. And yet their results were not published because those involved wouldn't have been disfranchised if they'd done so. They just kind of made something up about well, we were

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