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
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
Books
- David A. Kolb: Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development (1984)
- A. G. Sertillanges: The Intellectual Life (1992) (1992)
- Jonathan Rose: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class (2001)
- Barbara Oakley: A Mind For Numbers (2014)
- Barbara Oakley: Mindshift (2017)
- Barbara Oakley: Learning How To Learn (2018)
- Barbara Oakley: Uncommon Sense Teaching (2021)
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Barbara Oakley: Learn Like a Pro (2021)
- ADS: Beware the Casual Polymath
- Robin Rendle: Growing and Learning