Tag: education

Education and Money

It is often the case that parents that spend a lot of money on their child’s education put less responsibility on the child to make it all work. There’s an internal argument that goes like this: Because I’m spending a lot, I deserve better educational outcomes for my child.

But more expensive doesn’t mean better—especially in education. In fact, taking into regard what I said in a previous post, less intervention from teachers might be better if the student can learn to apply buttocks to seat and work.

I saw two tendencies from parents who paid exorbitant amounts for their children’s education:

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Education | Letting students think for themselves

In mathematics students have to grapple with problems to understand it. It’s only when they go through the effort of investigating a problem on a deep level that they understand it.

Solving for x doesn’t mean much when all the steps are written down in advance. Just copying answers is useless. But mentally grappling with the problem—that’s where the gold lies.

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Education and IQ | Why struggle is beneficial

The idea that we are either smart or dumb is enormously destructive. Many people have written books on how cognitive skills can improve with effort and time. (One, Two, Three, Four.)

That said, this mainstream idea that our mental capacity is fixed is an idea that I’ve been trying to debunk for years.

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