Education

Quantity to quality

Quality vs quantity is a short-term way of thinking. It might be good for a quick project evaluation, but it ain’t good for life.

The notorious (and speculative) 10 000 hour rule says that’s what it takes to be an expert.

The wrong kind of testing

A common complaint from students is that there are too many tests.

I don’t think that’s true. Let me explain it.

The issue isn’t too much testing, but the wrong kind of testing.

Diagnosis vs. Yardstick

Who are you becoming?

We take many tests — personality tests, IQ tests, ability tests,… all offering to tell us who we are and in which group we belong.

“You’re a Gryffindor too, how wonderful, we are in the same house!”

Don’t isolate your thinking

We all have exactly one brain. We extend it with technologies like smartphones and computers, but in the end…

Are you asking questions that matter?

I had a conversation with a friend recently about how schools don’t lead people to ask themselves questions. Later, in a different conversation with two students, they told me they chose a high school with a general program because they didn’t know what to do…