How to Determine Potentiality in Skills

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In the last 15 or 20 years, you can get doctor pinker's lectures, robert spalskis lectures from stanford, all for free. We don't have to judge for potentiality, but we're acting as if that doesn't exist. And so students are, quite literally, now paying for the exact length that everybody else can get for free. In some cases, during a pandemic, a you were recording your own lectures. I did the same kind of thing for my students. There were some teachers and professors that just sort of took some of those links and posted them on their canvas pages to watch. Look at the comments underneath it say, all the

Michael Shermer speaks with Chris Edwards about educational reform, his study and teaching of world history, the problems in K–12 education, the zip-code model vs. the seat time model of education and how they result in massively different educational outcomes, how “no child left behind” left children behind, federal vs. state educational systems, cheating scandals and what to do about them, the future of education in a world of free (or nearly free) online learning, comparing the U.S. educational system to other countries. Shermer and Edwards also discuss thought experiments, based on Edwards’ latest book, Thought Experiments: History and Applications for Education.