I’m interested in progress in education.
I write here, https://thoughtsoneducation.substack.com/
Thoughts On Education
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I’m interested in the role of education in progress, particularly childhood education. I believe that accelerating education and promoting early graduation of students is key for progress in many different domains chiefly by counteracting the burden of knowledge (https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2_BurdenOfKnowledge.pdf). I also believe that many people discount how much more efficient education could be made.
What are your thoughts on childhood (birth to around age 18) education as it relates to progress and do you know people involved with progress studies that are working on education?
I’m hoping to publish more of my thoughts on education as it relates to progress in the future. Do you personally have questions or thoughts on the relation between progress and education that you would like to see people explore?
I’d love to hear from Montessorium/ Higher Ground Education. I have been following some of what they post online with great interest. I’ve also talked to Simone Collins a bit about The Collins’ Institute a while back and saw that Malcolm Collins spoke at the most recent Great Rethink in Education conference that Montessorium and Joe Connor put on.
I’ll also add that probably more people are focused on innovation in pedagogy than you may believe. Some of them end up fighting for clear, systematic explicit instruction in phonics which doesn’t feel very innovative because it’s an old, effective idea that was crowded out by some newer bad ideas. There are similar battles in mathematics pedagogy, music pedagogy, and more.
That said, we seem to agree there is need for more focus. And perhaps we agree that there needs to be more radical innovation.