TheBardolatress

In education, "Knowledge" is far more important than "critical thinking" CT is important (eventually). But students can't think critically about ANYTHING is they don't KNOW anything Teach knowledge first & foremost. Get as much information into their heads as possible. Then CT

ハーバード大学が「奇跡」と呼んだ。 場所はMITでもNASAでもない。 東京駅の新幹線ホームだった🚄✨ 新幹線の折り返し時間——たった7分⏱️ この7分で、 座席を回転させ、 テーブルを拭き、 ゴミを回収し、 忘れ物を確認し、 1,323席すべてをピカピカにする✨✨✨ やっているのは 平均年齢52歳のおばちゃんたち👵💪 特殊な機械？　ない。 AI？　ない。 ロボット？　ない。 あるのは、段取りと誇りだけ🔥 ハーバードはこれを 「7minutes miracle」と名付け、 世界中のMBAで教材にした📚🌍 年収1,000万のエリートたちが 東京駅のおばちゃんの仕事を 必死にノートに書き写してる😭✒️ しかもね、 清掃が終わったら全員が整列して ホームに向かって深々とお辞儀するの🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ 乗客に見えなくても。 誰も見てなくても。 毎回、必ず。 ……泣くって😭😭😭 技術大国とか、 経済大国とか、 そういう話じゃないんだよ。 「当たり前を当たり前にやる」 これが世界を震わせた🌏 これが、日本の本当の強さだ🇯🇵🔥 日本に生まれたこと、 誇っていいよ😭🇯🇵

I had a conversation with one of my guys at work. He's 23, a good "kid" and he seems to have a great head on his shoulders. We were talking about required reading when I was in school; Animal Farm, 1984, To Kill a Mocking Bird, etc. He never heard of 1984. No idea about Animal Farm. He did know about "Mocking Bird." The look on my face had to show my disappointment. I said, "Bro, these are important books. So relevant today!" Hours later, he showed me his Amazon receipt. That's a win.

In case you missed the story of how Mike Yastrzemski learned how to spell his last name as a kid.

There are corrections and there are CORRECTIONS.

Vanderbilt has been making a push to distinguish themselves from the Ivies by becoming an explicitly Jewish-friendly institution. This is a smart move which will help their university grow prestige over time as families start to see it as preferable to Harvard.

昨年の誕生日に家族から貰った桜のミニ盆栽。 貰った時は葉桜で、盆栽の育て方もわからず、枯らしたらどうしようと思いながら必死に育てたんですが、ついに開花まで辿りつけました🌸 初めまして、名も知らぬ桜の花よ。 嬉しい。枯らさずにすんで良かった。 ゆっくりお花見を楽しみます。

the way we evaluate edtech is broken. a product can serve 13 million kids for 15 years with zero independent evidence that it works, and still make the approved vendor list in most states. the bar for getting into classrooms is "widely used." not "proven effective." we would never accept that standard for medicine or engineering. but for the tools shaping how kids learn to read and write, somehow vibes and market share are good enough.

Absolutely!!! Why are we STILL requiring students to take foreign language in high school when there is virtually no benefit. Do high schoolers become fluent in the foreign language? No. Does it have a high ROI on cognitive development and brain health? Also no. Students’ brains would benefit more from 60 minutes of aerobic exercise than from sitting in a foreign language class. Also, we all have translators in our pockets. This is one of the many requirements in education whose time has expired. Public ed must stop wasting students’ time.

I hate how pervasive this attitude has become. “Why teach languages in schools? Why bother teaching fiction / myth / poetry?” Because school is about exposure to new things; because education without the humanities is worthless; because if the schools don’t teach them, who will?