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

Education Bookcast

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Learning Is the Retina of Thought

The Matthew Effect is about the way that knowledge works. We're not designed for thinking and we don't typically like thinking, he says. So how can I teach students skills they need when standardized tests require only facts? The answer is actually facts are important so make sure you do teach Facts. And why does students remember everything on TV and forget everything I say? Okay, so it comes up with the idea here that memory is the residue of thought.

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