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education

How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.

What people on korrents have said about education, newest first — 72 positions from 31 people.

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Who Everyone JLJoe Liemandt 20 FDFreddie deBoer 14 BCBryan Caplan 5 AMAdam Mastroianni 3 FLFei-Fei Li 3 AKAndrej Karpathy 2 ACAlan Castel 1 AEAlice Evans 1 BTBret Taylor 1 CMCasey Muratori 1 DWDan Wang 1 DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson 1 DRDavid Reich 1 JCJohn H. Cochrane 1 JHJon Haidt 1 JZJulie Zhuo 1 KSKarri Saarinen 1 KJKeyu Jin 1 LLLuca Lampariello 1 MPMark Pincus 1 MKMartin Kleppmann 1 MHMolson Hart 1 OKOliver Kim 1 PBPaul Bloom 1 PDPavel Durov 1 RKRaph Koster 1 RHRobin Hanson 1 RBRyan Burge 1 SYScott H. Young 1 SKSteve Kaufmann 1 SPSunil Pai 1
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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingThe world has achieved universal access to school and nowhere near universal learning, and closing that second gap is the whole problem left in education.

    Their wordsWe have universal access. What we are trying to do is bring universal learning. So there's a vast disparity in how much kids learn during that 12 years that while they may have access to it, learning is very different.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 1st of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingHow children are educated will change more in the next five to ten years than it has in the last hundred.

    Their wordsAnd so what we think is because of new things that have become available and things like AI and technology for the first time in 50 and 100 years you can revisit and change education. How we educate kids is going to be radically different in 5 years and 10 years than the last 50 and 100 years.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 2nd of 26 in this recording

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    Paul Bloom quoted

    Our readingDisputes about phones, homework and childhood are disputes about values, and more data will not settle them.

    Their wordsthe claim here is that arguments about smartphones, bullying, and homework are arguments about values, often moral values

    ↗Kids These Dayssmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net 3rd of 3 in this piece

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingHigh standards are the key to a child's happiness, and a school with low standards cannot be a school children love.

    Their wordsAnd we explained to them, which is the key to your child's happiness is high standards. And I can't run a school that they love more than vacation if I have low standards.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 3rd of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingOne-to-one tutoring has always been the best way to teach anybody anything; the only reason schooling was never built that way is that it was not affordable.

    Their wordsIndividualized tutoring is the best model. A one-on-one model is the best model. A mentorship model, an apprentice mentor, that is the best model. It's not cost-effective.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 6th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingHomeschooling outcomes are bimodal: families who care about academics beat conventional school outright, and families who reject standards leave their children knowing very little.

    Their wordsThe level of academics that those students know is very low because the parents have basically abandoned that and said, "I care all about the life skills." For parents who really care about academics, those kids crush it.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 7th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingHalf of Bloom's two-sigma effect comes from mastery rather than from the tutor, and mastery is exactly the half that education explicitly rejects.

    Their wordsMastery is actually the part everybody forgets about on that. If you have a tutor that's not mastery based, you won't get the top 2%. One sigma came from the tutor. One sigma comes from mastery, which once again we'll talk about we all accept mastery in in athletics, but we reject it explicitly reject it in education.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 8th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingTwo hours a day on lessons pitched at a child's actual level teaches them more than six hours of class plus homework.

    Their wordsOur average student does not sit in class for six and do homework. They sit at an AI app and they spend two hours a day. The average kid spent 121 minutes last year in the apps and learned more than 2x they what they would have in sitting in class for six and doing homework.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 9th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingThe central defect of American schooling is that an eighth grader is delivered eighth-grade content by law, whatever he actually knows.

    Their wordsAnd that's the problem in our current education system today is we are taking eighth graders and we are delivering them eighth grade content because that's what an eighth grade teacher does by law. They need to stand up and deliver the eighth grade content.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 11th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingAI is education's microscope: the first instrument that gives learning science a closed measurement loop at the level of one child.

    Their wordsAI because it's on a onetoone basis is giving us a data loop that nobody in learning science no one in education has ever had and we have it. It's a closed loop and that magical data loop is what's allowing us to get the five to 10 times improvements in education because it's our microscope.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 12th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingA worked example whose scaffolding is progressively removed teaches faster than making a child figure the problem out unaided.

    Their wordsThe better way to learn, the faster way to learn is to give you them a worked example where you show them and then you progressively remove the parts of the example where they're having to progressively go up and then by the end they can solve the problem with no scaffolding.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 13th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingWhen a child starts struggling with algebra the problem is almost never algebra; it is the third-grade math facts they never learned, and more algebra will not fix it.

    Their wordsAnd that's why when kids get to algebra and they start to struggle, the issue is not the algebra. The issue is the third grade math facts they didn't learn. And the way to fix the problem is not pound them with more algebra. It's to go fix the third grade problem.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 14th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingGifted children are the ones school damages most: never challenged, they spend twelve years learning the worst possible habits and their ability cannot make up for it.

    Their wordsand we're teaching them the worst habits in the world. And so we're giving them 12 years of the worst habits and then even their capability can't overcome that. That it's the super gifted athlete who literally has every bad habit in the book

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 15th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingThe single best thing AI could do for American education is not a chatbot but an individualized lesson plan that catches a child up to grade level.

    Their wordsThe most positive use case if you said, you know, what's the number one thing we could use AI for? It's not giving kids chatbots that's going to work. It's giving them an individualized lesson plan based on their level to catch them up to grade level. And that would be the single best thing we could do to fix education in America.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 17th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingMotivation, not curriculum or method, is ninety percent of the problem in education and ninety percent of the solution.

    Their wordsAnd that's why we say motivation is 90% of the problem or the solution because you have to be able to motivate the person to engage with these personalized lessons to learn it.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 18th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingBeing years behind is only demoralising because it is stated in years: told the gap is twenty-two hours of work, a child will close it.

    Their wordsAnd the first step that we do on that is we show them it's tractable. When you're like, I'm three years behind, you're like, I'm out. It's too far. I'm a year behind. I'm too It's too much work. When you're like, you're 22 hours behind. It's 22 hours a day. Totally different message.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 19th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingA school should be judged on how fast its students are learning, not on how much they already know when measured.

    Their wordsAnd you should measure a school based on the rate of learning and the slope of the line, the growth rate, not its achievement.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 20th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingThe teachers people remember changed them by removing a belief that they could not do something, not by teaching the material well.

    Their wordsthe best teacher you had, like everybody remembers the one or two teachers who changed their life. It wasn't because they marked up your paper really well. That wasn't what did it for them. It was because you had some block. They saw you and they convinced you you could do so much more.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 21st of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingThe insistence that any education innovation must serve everybody at once and for free is the poison that stops education innovating at all.

    Their wordsin education there's a concept that I think is really poison and why we have trouble innovating in education which is there's a view that you must serve everybody all at once for free like just anything you do in education no matter who it's for they're like I'm going to come up with a counter example where it doesn't work for everybody all at once for free and that's not how products are developed

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 23rd of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingDropping educational software into an existing school changes nothing; the whole school day has to be redesigned around it or it fails.

    Their wordsI want to be clear, you can't throw edtech in. You can't take our time back and throw it into a school. It's not going to work cuz you haven't solved any of the other problems. And so edtech is not a magic, you know, it's not a silver bullet.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 25th of 26 in this recording

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    Joe Liemandt quoted

    Our readingThe strongest thing that convinces a child they can do something is not an adult telling them, it is watching a classmate do it.

    Their wordsthe number one motivator to get rid of a block. It's actually not the guy as the the biggest one. The number one thing that convinces kids they can do something is watching their classmate do it.

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 26th of 26 in this recording

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    Ryan Burge quoted

    Our readingThe widest religious gap in American family size is about half a child.

    Their wordsComparing evangelicals to atheists and agnostics – the widest religious contrast the data offers – and controlling for age, race, education, and sex, the gap is about 0.6 children.

    ↗Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com 5th of 5 in this piece

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    Sunil Pai quoted

    Our readingCheap intelligence does not make agency cheap, and these tools may mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and time.

    Their wordsmaking intelligence cheap does not automatically make “agency” cheap. people are constrained by time, money, confidence, health, education, institutions, family, geography; a model does not magic any of that away. there’s a perfectly believable future where these tools mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and the spare time to use them well.

    ↗the task isn't the jobsunilpai.dev

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    Fei-Fei Li quoted

    Our readingIt would be dangerous for a few people from industry to set the rules for AI, because market forces are not societal norms.

    Their wordsWhat I would not like to see is one person or or a few people coming from industry and telling everybody what to do. I think that would be dangerous because market forces are different from uh societal norms and culture and heritage are different from uh education and ethics and and these are multistakeholder problems to solve together.

    ↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 14th of 21 in this recording

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    Fei-Fei Li quoted

    Our readingPrompting should be taught in schools from kindergarten onwards, as a matter of public education.

    Their wordsThis is why public education is so important. This is why education is so important. I would love to see our schools K12 teaching prompting.

    ↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 18th of 21 in this recording

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    Fei-Fei Li quoted

    Our readingTeachers are the most important people in society and the ones the AI industry has most completely forgotten.

    Their wordsThey are the most important people in our society. We should be talking to them. We should be uplifting them. We should be supporting them. We should be providing resources to them.

    ↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 21st of 21 in this recording

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  52. 3 weeks earlier
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    Scott H. Young quoted

    Our readingYou cannot learn from work you did not do yourself.

    Their wordsBut having AI do your homework is self-defeating. You can’t learn without doing the work.

    ↗We Need Guidelines for Learning and AIscotthyoung.com 1st of 4 in this piece

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    Alan Castel quoted

    Our readingLearning should be made harder rather than easier, and a teacher's instinct to smooth the path is the first thing that goes wrong.

    Their wordsHow can you make learning kind of uncomfortable, but that you'll remember things better? And it goes against a lot of our intuitions. A lot of teachers will want to say, how can we make learning easier? And I think that's probably the first problem is you don't want it to be easy.

    ↗How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castelyoutube.com 3rd of 24 in this recording

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  56. 4 weeks earlier
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    Mark Pincus quoted

    Our readingSchools are still preparing children to become knowledge workers, and that game is over.

    Their wordsmy kids are in this educational system that is trying to prep them to get into a good college and to be a knowledge worker and I know that game is over

    ↗The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)youtube.com 21st of 22 in this recording

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    David Reich quoted

    Our readingThe selection signal on the genetics of schooling is not a European artefact: the same variants predict years of school in China, a population disconnected from Europe for the whole period.

    Their wordsSo we just could not see a way this could happen by chance and once we saw that we really felt quite convinced that this was a real signal and that really somehow there has been natural selection to increase the genetic changes that today manifest themselves as more years of school at predicting more years of schooling.

    ↗David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farmingyoutube.com 10th of 26 in this recording

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    Martin Kleppmann quoted

    Our readingThe essay a student hands in is not the point of education; the thought process that produced it is the entire desired outcome.

    Their wordsWe don't ask the students to write essays because we love reading their amazing essays. We ask them to write essays because they we want them to go through a thought process, which helps them learn something.

    ↗Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmannyoutube.com 24th of 26 in this recording

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    Steve Kaufmann quoted

    Our readingLearning a language happens through exposure to language you can mostly understand; classroom drills feel productive and build nothing.

    Their wordsClassroom activities like grammar drills and vocabulary tests feel productive. You are doing something. But none of it builds the network your brain actually needs.

    ↗What Is Second Language Acquisition?blog.thelinguist.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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  64. 3 weeks earlier
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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingPutting the children most likely to succeed into one school is segregation, not educational excellence.

    Their wordsSimply creating artificial separation between different students is not a strategy for “educational excellence.” It’s just segregation.

    ↗When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids"freddiedeboer.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingThe best teachers, unlimited resources and every evidence-based intervention still fail on a student who does not want to learn.

    Their wordsYou can staff a school with the best teachers on earth, give them unlimited resources, and wrap the place in every evidence-based intervention imaginable, and it still won’t work if students are resistant, disengaged, or actively hostile to the enterprise.

    ↗When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids"freddiedeboer.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingEducation cannot be done to a person: without at least a minimal act of will from the learner, no method, resource or reform works.

    Their wordsEducation is not something that can be done to someone; it’s something that requires at least a minimal act of will from the learner, and no reform agenda can engineer that away.

    ↗When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids"freddiedeboer.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

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  70. 12 days earlier
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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingThe educational crisis narrative is downstream of the labour market: we destroyed the jobs that did not need a degree and then ordered schools to make everybody degree-ready.

    Their wordsEverybody thinks our schools are in crisis all the time because they’re being forced to do something they were never meant to do, which is to make everyone college-ready, and they’re being forced to do that because we have seen jobs that provide a living wage without a college diploma evaporate.

    ↗What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Everfreddiedeboer.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingThe golden age of American schooling that reformers want to return to never existed anywhere.

    Their wordsBut please, stop saying things like “I just want us to get back to a world where kids were graduating high school with basic skills!” Because the world you’re referring to never existed.

    ↗What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Everfreddiedeboer.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

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    Molson Hart quoted

    Our readingRebuilding American manufacturing is a decades-long educational and cultural project, not something tariffs can do.

    Their wordsAmerica needs an educational and cultural transformation to compete with China and reverse the decline in living standards that Americans have suffered over decades.

    ↗Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.molsonhart.com 4th of 4 in this piece

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    Jon Haidt quoted

    Our readingStudents have lost the capacity for sustained attention over the past decade, and they report the difficulty themselves.

    Their wordsSo many of us in the education world have seen this precise change in our students over the past decade: They have more difficulty reading books, sitting through a 75-minute class, or doing their homework.

    ↗The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generationafterbabel.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingThe United States was never a leader in international educational comparisons, so there is no lost first place to return to.

    Their wordsWe have never, ever done well in international educational comparisons.

    ↗Was the United States Once a Global Leader in Educational Metrics? Have We Fallen From Those Lofty Heights? No and Nofreddiedeboer.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingThe recent fall in test scores is a rich-world phenomenon, and steeper in several European countries than in America, so it cannot be blamed on American policy.

    Their wordsLearning loss is a global phenomenon, exacerbated by a catastrophic event, not a structural flaw unique to the American education system.

    ↗Was the United States Once a Global Leader in Educational Metrics? Have We Fallen From Those Lofty Heights? No and Nofreddiedeboer.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

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    Andrej Karpathy quoted

    Our readingEducation is not a soft business of diffusing knowledge but a hard technical problem of building ramps to it.

    Their wordsso in my mind education is kind of like the very difficult technical like uh process of building ramps to knowledge.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 28th of 30 in this recording

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    Andrej Karpathy quoted

    Our readingEarly schooling is not for accumulating knowledge but for booting up a brain, and physics does that better than any other subject.

    Their wordsIt's about booting up a brain and I think physics uniquely boots up the brain the best.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 30th of 30 in this recording

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    Pavel Durov quoted

    Our readingMaths is essential schooling: it trains you to split big problems into small ones and to think for yourself, the same skill programming, project management and founding a company need.

    Their wordsYeah. I still think math is essential. It's something that shapes your brain, it teaches you to rely on your logical thinking to split big problems into smaller parts, put them in the right sequence, solve them patiently, trying again if it doesn't work.

    ↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 17th of 28 in this recording

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingEducational miracles are manufactured by selection: the students who would have scored badly are quietly moved off the books.

    Their wordsThat’s how educational miracles are manufactured: through artificially creating selection bias, which is the most powerful force in education.

    ↗There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingWho is in a school predicts its results better than anything about its teaching, its teachers or its methods.

    Their wordsOnce again, the composition of the student body is always more powerful a predictor than any identifiable pedagogical, school, or teacher variable.

    ↗There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingSchools account for a tenth or less of the variation in how well students do.

    Their wordsThat makes perfect sense when you consider that schools control 10% or less of the variance in student academic outputs.

    ↗There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece

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    Julie Zhuo quoted

    Our readingThe most underused thing AI does is teach you: people reach for it to write their code and forget it can take them through a curriculum in an hour.

    Their wordsSo yes, the tools are great. We can use cursor. It helps us. It autocompletes. It writes a bunch of things. But the acceleration of learning I think is another maybe underutilized tool in all of our arsenals

    ↗From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuoyoutube.com 7th of 22 in this recording

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    John H. Cochrane quoted

    Our readingClimate became a moral and political cause rather than a technical one, and that is what will destroy public support for it.

    Their wordsThe “climate crisis” has been taught as gospel for 20 years. Now the average person can see their teachers have been preaching politics in the name of science.

    ↗Climate turning pointgrumpy-economist.com 2nd of 4 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingWe accept without difficulty that people differ in athletic or musical talent, and refuse to accept that they differ in academic talent.

    Their wordsBut with education and intelligence, we’re unwilling to countenance the simple reality that some people are better equipped to succeed and some worse.

    ↗Education Doesn't Work 3.0freddiedeboer.substack.com 2nd of 6 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingEducation can raise how much everyone knows, but it almost never changes who is ahead of whom.

    Their wordsDecades of grading data; standardized test scores; cross-sectional, longitudinal, observational, and experimental studies; along with many other types of ancillary and convergent evidence, ultimately tell the same story: education can raise the absolute performance of most students modestly, but it almost never meaningfully reshuffles the relative distribution of ability and achievement

    ↗Education Doesn't Work 3.0freddiedeboer.substack.com 3rd of 6 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingChildren settle into a band of academic performance early in life and stay in it, whatever their schooling does.

    Their wordsThe brute reality is that most kids slot themselves into academic ability bands early in life and stay there throughout schooling.

    ↗Education Doesn't Work 3.0freddiedeboer.substack.com 4th of 6 in this piece

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    Freddie deBoer quoted

    Our readingIn thousands of years of trying, nobody has found a reliable, repeatable way of moving a child from one educational percentile into another.

    Their wordsBut in thousands of years of education humanity has discovered no replicable and reliable means of taking kids from one educational percentile and raising them up into another.

    ↗Education Doesn't Work 3.0freddiedeboer.substack.com 5th of 6 in this piece

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    Bret Taylor quoted

    Our readingTurning expertise into a commodity is democratising, because access to medical, legal and mental-health advice has always tracked wealth.

    Their wordsI just think about like really simple things like access to mental health care, access to education, access to medical advice, access to legal advice. We're essentially taking expertise and making it a commodity. And I think that will is generally democratizing.

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 6th of 22 in this recording

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    Keyu Jin quoted

    Our readingThe one-child policy accidentally produced a golden age for Chinese women, who received the education investment that would otherwise have gone to a son.

    Their wordsMaybe on the good side, it’s actually a golden age for Chinese women because the Chinese girls never had as much education investment apportioned to them as they’ve had after being the only child in the family. And you raised a daughter like a son. And if we look at all the skill gaps and the education gaps and the returns to education, actually girls fared better.

    ↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com 14th of 16 in this recording

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    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    Our readingHiring a programmer turns on two things, the cover letter and a real programming test, never the resume, school, grades or pedigree.

    Their wordsthe main pivot point for getting hired was not your resume, was not the schooling you've had, it was not your grades, was not your pedigree, it was how well you did on two things. A, your cover letter. Because I can only work with people remotely if they're good writers.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 30th of 36 in this recording

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    Bryan Caplan quoted

    Our readingFunding education does not make a country rich; being rich is what makes a country fund education lavishly.

    Their wordsLavishly funding education doesn’t cause countries to become rich; being rich causes countries to lavishly fund education.

    ↗Educational Austerity and Progress Studiesbetonit.ai 1st of 3 in this piece

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    Bryan Caplan quoted

    Our readingAt the national level there is no clear evidence that more education raises living standards at all.

    Their wordsAt the national level, it’s not clear that education increases living standards at all, much less that education makes countries’ living standards increase at a faster rate.

    ↗Educational Austerity and Progress Studiesbetonit.ai 2nd of 3 in this piece

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  116. 3 weeks earlier
  117. BC

    Bryan Caplan quoted

    Our readingThe main function of education is signalling rather than building skill, so subsidising it mostly inflates credentials.

    Their wordsSince signaling, not building human capital, is the main function of education, the main effect of government subsidies is credential inflation.

    ↗Selfishly Speaking, Who Should Skip College?betonit.ai 1st of 5 in this piece

    inflationgovernment

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  119. BC

    Bryan Caplan quoted

    Our readingCollege is not a good career investment for most of the population.

    Their wordsDespite misleading statements by mainstream education economists, college attendance in particular is not a good career investment for most of the population.

    ↗Selfishly Speaking, Who Should Skip College?betonit.ai 2nd of 5 in this piece

    economists

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  121. BC

    Bryan Caplan quoted

    Our readingParents and teachers are not trustworthy judges of how intelligent a young person is.

    Their wordsDon’t base your life choices on whether parents and teachers constantly tell you that you’re “smart.” They’re not trustworthy assessors of your intelligence.

    ↗Selfishly Speaking, Who Should Skip College?betonit.ai 3rd of 5 in this piece

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  122. 4 weeks earlier
  123. OK

    Oliver Kim quoted

    Our readingSouth Korea and Taiwan began their miracles with far more schooling than their income implied, and African states with far less.

    Their wordsAt independence, South Korea and Taiwan had far higher rates of primary education than most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

    ↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org 1st of 8 in this piece

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  124. 3 months earlier
  125. AE

    Alice Evans quoted

    Our readingThe fall in childbearing in rich countries is concentrated among the less educated, not among female graduates.

    Their wordsSlurs of ‘childless cat ladies’ usually target female graduates, but in the US, Sweden and Finland the real decline is happening among people with less education.

    ↗Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world 10th of 11 in this piece

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  126. 9 months earlier
  127. RH

    Robin Hanson quoted

    Our readingPaying parents large sums of cash directly is the pronatal policy most likely to work, because every indirect policy has to guess what the real obstacle is.

    Their wordsSimilarly, most recent discussions of how to promote fertility discuss how we might promote housing, inequality, schooling, day-care, etc., but few consider directly paying parents big amounts to have kids. As indirect approaches require us to guess what are the actual main obstacles to fertility, they are more likely to fail.

    ↗Five Fertility Failsovercomingbias.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

    housingdemographics

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  128. 5 months earlier
  129. RK

    Raph Koster quoted

    Our readingA puzzle whose categories can only be seen by the broadly educated is elitist by construction.

    Their wordsBut it’s fundamentally elitist — it basically requires you to have a broad education to find the categories in the first place.

    ↗Why NYT’s Connections makes you feel badraphkoster.com 1st of 2 in this piece

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  130. 4 months earlier
  131. AM

    Adam Mastroianni quoted

    Our readingEvaluation should be taken out of the classroom and given to people whose whole job it is.

    Their wordsOne solution is to separate instruction and evaluation. Let teachers be teachers and cops be cops.

    ↗I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com 5th of 6 in this piece

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  132. 2 months earlier
  133. DW

    Dan Wang quoted

    Our reading · no longer heldThe 2021 crackdown was a bounded correction, and it would take more than a regulatory campaign to defeat China's economic dynamism.

    No longer holdsWhat I did not sufficiently appreciate is that a state that would so casually decapitate a sector like online tutoring would also have the will to visit catastrophe upon whole cities.

    SaidI perceive a fading sense of enthusiasm among businesspeople and youths.

    ↗2022 letterdanwang.co 7th of 7 in this piece

    China

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  134. 8 months earlier
  135. AM

    Adam Mastroianni quoted

    Our readingWhat survives an education is not the knowledge but the feeling it left behind.

    Their wordsI’m here to tell you that learning is all about vibes.

    ↗You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?experimental-history.com 3rd of 7 in this piece

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  137. AM

    Adam Mastroianni quoted

    Our readingAlmost all of education is organised around knowledge and skills, which are exactly the part that does not last.

    Their wordsAlmost all of education centers around knowledge and skills rather than vibes.

    ↗You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?experimental-history.com 5th of 7 in this piece

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  138. 11 months earlier
  139. LL

    Luca Lampariello quoted

    Our readingKnowing conjugation tables, word lists and the names of the tenses has nothing to do with being able to use a language.

    Their wordsIn traditional classroom settings, the development of skills often gets overlooked in favor of facts. Facts in the form of conjugation tables, word lists, grammar explanations, the names of verb tenses, and so on. All of these things are related to language, but it’s important to realize that knowing these things has nothing to do with speaking and using a language productively.

    ↗3 Steps for Effective Translation to Learn Any Languagelucalampariello.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

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  140. 7 years earlier
  141. CM

    Casey Muratori quoted

    Our readingThe material that teaches people how to program is overwhelmingly bad, because the programmers who know how to do it well rarely think it is worth writing down.

    Their wordsthe landscape of educational materials out there still overwhelmingly falls into the "objectively bad" category

    ↗Semantic Compressioncaseymuratori.com 1st of 4 in this piece

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  142. 4 years earlier
  143. KS

    Karri Saarinen quoted

    Our readingIn making products, taste is not a matter of opinion but a sense of sophistication, learned by making something real rather than at school.

    Their wordsIn making products, taste is not a matter of opinion, but an actual sense of sophistication that a person has. People who make new things need to practice taste and recognize beauty when they see it. Schools or education have very little to teach in the area of taste, you need to get involved in making something real.

    ↗Your Product Needs a Soulkarrisaarinen.com

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