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What teachers need to know about intelligence - Part 1: Why IQ matters
May 21, 2017 |
Category: psychology
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.Montaigne
Although it’s become a truism to say we know relatively little about how our brains work, we know a lot more now than we used...
What's the point of school?
Mar 14, 2017 |
Category: Featured
Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at.Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
Schools have only ever existed in cultures where culturally specific knowledge...
Do gender differences make a difference?
Jul 18, 2015 |
Category: psychology
It's a well-known fact that boys underachieve. Every statistic tells us so. But ever since writing this post I've been suspicious of gender as the root cause for differences in achievement. Yes, girls...
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