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85. Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham

Education Bookcast

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The Anti-Knowledge Table

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten, said B.F. Skinner. Your learning is useless to you till you have lost your textbooks, burned your lecture notes, and forgotten the minutiae which you learned by heart for the examination, said Alfred North Whitehead. And we are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a belly full of words and do not know a thing, said Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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