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Don’t define yourself by your opinions because then you can’t change your mind. Define yourself by your values.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
If, as Gopnik hypothesizes, “childhood is a way of injecting noise—and novelty—into the system of cultural evolution,” psychedelics might do the same thing for the system of the adult mind.
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
Seymour Papert used the term hard fun to describe this type of learning. Too often, teachers and educational publishers try to make lessons easier, believing that children want things to be easy. But that’s not the case. Most children are willing to work hard—eager to work hard—so long as they’re excited about the things they’re working on. When children engage in a hard-fun activity, they also become engaged with the ideas associated with the activity. It’s common to hear adults talk favorably about activities that are “so much fun that kids don’t even know they’re learning.” But that shouldn’t be the goal. It’s valuable for kids to be reflective about their learning, to think explicitly about new ideas and new strategies. After Leo used variables to keep score in his game, he wanted to learn more about variables. What else could variables do? How else could he use them?
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
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