Autodidactism

On School and Education

• Seth Godin: School vs. progress
• Seth Godin: Stop stealing dreams
• Seth Godin: Self-directed, project-based learning
• Seth Godin: Enrollment
• Seth Godin: From education to learning
• Seth Godin: The modern curriculum
• Seth Godin: Respecting their time
• Seth Godin: Tools for modern citizens
• Agnes Callard: The Real College Scandal
• Van Schneider: The new student is autodidact
• Adam Marshall: High school is poison for autodidacts
• MMM: The Self Educating Child
• [48:37] Society’s most broken machine
• [28:00] AEON: The school where children make the rules and learn what they want to learn
• [10:50] Sal Khan: Let’s teach for mastery – not test scores (Ted Talk)
• Sal Khan: The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined (book)
• Josef Piper: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (book)
• The education race
• You Can’t Teach What They Aren’t Ready to Know
• On cultures that build
• Bored our of their minds
• Noam Chomsky - On Being Truly Educated
• Unbundling the University
• Akimbo: Enforcement and enrollment
• I should have loved biology
• Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor

On Self Learning

Articles

• Wikipedia: Autodidacticism
• There’s no speed limit: the standard pace is for chumps
• LW: I want to become stronger
• LW: Learning optimization
• LW: On learning difficult things
• LW: Lessons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching
• LW: Book review: How learning works
• LW: A brief summary of effective study methods
• LW: How to beat procrastination
• Let me learn: Provide tutorials in more formats
• The Lost Tools Of Learning
• Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps
• Why books don’t work: how might we design mediums in which “reading” is the same as “understanding”?
• A Model of Business Expertise
• The inexorable rise of the proletarian autodidact (paper)
  • ResearchGate (keynote)
• Noam Chomsky: The Common Good (transcribed talk)
• How Learning Works
• On Bloom’s two sigma problem: A systematic review of the effectiveness of mastery learning, tutoring, and direct instruction
• LW: Study Guide for technical problems we don’t understand
• How Learning Works: Components, Systems, and Loops
• True Learning Is Done With Agency
• Deliberate Practice Theory
• The Autodidacts
• Incidental Learning
• Learning and teaching practical wisdom
• Veritasium: The 4 things it takes to be an expert
  1. Repeated attempts with feedback
  2. Valid environment
  3. Timely feedback
  4. Don’t get too comfortable
• HN: Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
• ACT: Skills Plateau Because Of Decay And Interference

Books

• David A. Kolb: Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development (1984)
  • Wikipedia: Kolb’s experiential learning
• A. G. Sertillanges: The Intellectual Life (1992) (1992)
• Jonathan Rose: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class (2001)

• The Passion to Learn: An Inquiry into Autodidactism (2003)

• Barbara Oakley: A Mind For Numbers (2014)
• Barbara Oakley: Mindshift (2017)
• Barbara Oakley: Learning How To Learn (2018)
• Barbara Oakley: Uncommon Sense Teaching (2021)

• Barbara Oakley: Learn Like a Pro (2021)

• ADS: Beware the Casual Polymath
• Robin Rendle: Growing and Learning