Autodidactism

On School and Education Education is not about Learning 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 All People Are Created Educable “Yay, College!” Part 1: The Smiley-Face Super-Villainy of American Higher Education Can college level the playing field? No, it really can’t. More to that: The function of education Vocational Training for the Soul The seduction of grad school 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 Repeated attempts with feedback Valid environment Timely feedback Don’t get too comfortable HN: Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall ACT: Skills Plateau Because Of Decay And Interference (HN) Learning Is Remembering Fierce Nerds Contemporary Thinkers Pursue Mastery, Not Status How to Solve It – and by It – I Mean Anything Structured Academic Controversy: A Variant Stumbling Towards Rightness Everything is a rabbit hole Physics and Mathematics Self-Study Project Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology Permissionless Research Insufficient forgetting Useful assumptions for teachers Learning Styles FAQ Your life should be on an accelerated learning curve Massive input and/or spaced repetition Thoughts on the manual Fake Journal Club: Teaching Critical Reading How to Explain Anything to Anyone How to Write Readable Posts How to Learn Anything Easily Active vs. Passive Learning Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge 20 rules of knowledge formulation History has no lessons for you You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It Every Day Do Something that Won’t Compute To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly Two kinds of instructions 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 Research https://lukasmurdock.com/knowledge/#academia Selected Set Computer science Mathematics Physics Business See /wtl. Outline of academic disciplines Humanities Social science Natural science Formal science Applied science 1. Humanities Performing Arts Visual arts History Languages and literature Law Philosophy Religious studies Theology 2. Social science Anthropology Archaeology Economics Geography Political science Psychology Sociology Social work 3. Natural science Biology Chemistry Earth science Astronomy Physics 4. Formal science Computer science Mathematics 5. Applied science Agriculture Architecture and design Business Divinity Education Engineering and technology Environmental studies and forestry Family and consumer science Human physical performance and recreation Journalism, media studies and communication Law Library and museum studies Medicine and health Military services Public administration Social work Transportation I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. — Richard Feynman