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139. Reflections after 7 years

Education Bookcast

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What I've Learned About William Heard Kill Patrick

William Heard Kill Patrick was the inventor of the project based learning method. He spent a lot of his career talking about how mathematics is useless and we shouldn't teach people maths. His ideas have been essentially part of the foundation of progressive educational thinking in the United States at least. There are economic and social questions about education which he has tried to dig into but hasn't really got to the bottom of.

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