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I’ve often thought that parents and schools overemphasize the value of having the right answers all the time. It seems to me that the best students in school tend to be the worst at learning from their mistakes, because they have been conditioned to associate mistakes with failure instead of opportunity. This is a major impediment to their progress. Intelligent people who embrace their mistakes and weaknesses substantially outperform their peers who have the same abilities but bigger ego barriers.
Meyer pointed out that a typical lesson on the problem of “How long will it take to fill a water tank?” provides far too many tips and hints along the way. Meyer decided to “eliminate all the substeps given to kids, so they have to figure it out. Instead of telling them what matters, they need to decide what matters.” At first, Meyer began to strip a lot of the text out of his teaching materials, giving kids less, so they would have to ask and think more. Then he came up with an even better idea: He showed his class a video of a water tank filling up . . . “agonizingly slowly,” he says. Students began to “look at their watches, rolling their eyes. And they’re all wondering, at some point, ‘Man, how long is it gonna take to fill up?’ That’s how you know you’ve baited the hook.”
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
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