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#558 Justin Barrett - Thriving with Stone Age Minds; Evo Psych, Christian Faith, and Flourishing

The Dissenter

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Are We Doing Something Wrong With Our Education Systems?

With the kind of modern education systems that we have, do you think that we're doing something wrong with them that could be improved by using evolutionary theory? Ah, i do. I can't speak for all the world's education systems, but those that are most common in the west seem to have acquired an operating assumption that children are a little bit like timber that you send through a mill. It's a very industrial kind of model of education. But shouldn't we be looking at how human psychology learns, and what are the right lengths of units for how ore memory and attentional systems wor motivations? So that's to say, yes, i think we have some background assumptions that underlie

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