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• 24 Jan 12
  

  Brian C. Smith
  • Learning and teaching are not symmetrical.
  • They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that almost all papers and conversations on education assume they are.
  • The working assumption is this: Solve teaching and you will get learning.
  • Even if true in part, it addresses only some kinds of learning and never really attempts to understand the learning of learning itself.
  • The most universal and blatantly false of them is that age segregation is a good idea. The idea that all 7-year-olds should study together, and then the next year do the same with 8-year-olds, is just a bad idea. It was designed only for the convenience of the institution. It is like public toilet stalls not going from floor to ceiling, for the convenience of the janitors.

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