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What Adam Mastroianni thinks about education

@adam-mastroianni · 30 positions · 0 changes of mind

Experimental psychologist with a PhD from Harvard, and the author of the Experimental History newsletter, where he writes about how research actually gets done and why he thinks the institutions around it are failing.

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  1. 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

    Interesting
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  3. 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

    Interesting

  5. 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

    Interesting