The Importance of Habits in School

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

I'm somewhat sympathetic to the view that a lot of what is taught is not that useful to the students. What matters much more is something like the habits that you're building and practicing wrestling with content at all. I don't think it makes a difference whether you study ancient Greek history or ancient Chinese history, for example. So I tried very much to treat the actual subject matter as replaceable and like not very important.

Why do "antagonistic" teachers exist in popular culture but not in the classroom? What happens to student outcomes when "antagonistic" learning is implemented in real classrooms? What is the Field Theory of Parenting? What are things that we can do for others but can't do for ourselves? How can we notice and utilize costly and unfakeable signals? What is the core definition of civilization? How can we influence others ethically? Is explicit communication always better than implicit?

Duncan wants to leave the universe noticeably different than it was before he arrived, and he's currently trying to do this through making things and teaching people. He has a background in LEGO, parkour, and middle grades education, and is easily manipulated by people quoting Ender's Game. You can find out more about him at thirdfoundation.github.io.

Staff