Kids are just amazing

This TED talk describes some very interesting research about how well kids self-teach

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3 Responses to Kids are just amazing

  1. Kyle says:

    Is he suggesting that cramming children of wildly different backgrounds, intelligence, educations, and parental support structures and force-feeding them one way of learning is not optimal?

    MADNESS!!!

  2. MadRocketScientist says:

    I think the most fascinating part is that given a goal, a bit of encouragement, and the information needed to learn, groups of kids will teach themselves & each other whatever you want them to know (but it has to be a group, individual children are not so good at this)

  3. Firehand says:

    Some years back I was at work and got a call from son about the truck he’d bought(he was 16); it needed a brake job and he’d planned on picking up the parts. He’d got the parts, and then done it all himself: “I looked it up, it was all pretty straightforward.”

    Similar things on other kids. When they WANT to learn something, you can’t stop the little bastards.

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