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One of the main reasons we stick with simplistic metaphors such as the "mind-as-computer" is because they do not challenge our status quo systems and processes. __Fundamentally changing our dominant metaphor for the mind requires fundamentally changing our educational practices.__ It would make us change everything, from standardized testing to classroom activities. And this brings us to the heart of the issue: there are injustices done to students as a result of their being viewed and treated like something they are not.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
Working on client projects, she began to run a parallel exercise in her own mind, ignoring the McKinsey toolkit and just asking herself what she thought the right answer was. “Very rarely, if ever, did the step-by-step, perfectly linear process of ‘here’s how we’re going to conduct this exploration’—very rarely did that actually surface the right answer,” she said. Often, that process—the thing for which McKinsey was famed—was “used primarily for communicating the answer, rather than generating it,” she said. The answers were derived through intelligence and common sense, and then the team would make them look more like trademark McKinsey answers: “We would backfill them into the template,” Cohen said.
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
Development will only ever make sense if we begin to change the rules that produce poverty in the first place – if we begin to dismantle the architecture of upward redistribution that defines the world system.
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