Topics: Learning & Education Autodidacticism
See: Structured Autodidacticism An improved education system should:
- Seed interest with wide variety of topics (“How does a recipe get smaller when you’re cooking for fewer people” not “fractions”)
- Measure excitement, inspiration, energy, etc on each topic via an Internal Scorecard (Internal scorekeeping is a virtuous cycle)
- Explore the most interesting topic(s) and build a knowledge base through nonlinear, spiral learning (Autodidacticism). This is deep & wide.
- Create (internally-defined) SMART goals defining an ‘A+’ (challenging, just within reach, but rewarding ) vs. ‘C’ (minimum acceptable understanding floor)
- Work on deep, cross-disciplinary projects towards these SMART goals.