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Nick Shackleton-Jones 'Learning & Cognition: why Plato and Descartes got it all wrong'

The New Abnormal

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The Great Learning Prevention Scheme

We start to conflate learning and education. We teach people that learning is this process where you've got to memorize a bunch of facts and then re gurgitate them for a test. So we make it this kind of weird, sort of morris dancing type activity, unges disconnected from learning. And so what we do in learning is we reverse engineer that process. We say, sit down, shut up. I don't care who you are. i don't even need to know your name. You are just going to have to listen to what i and i,. as a kind of representative f the organization, or the bureaucracy, are going to tell you abouta we actually

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