education
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Smart vs Intelligent
Intelligence is our ability to adapt to an ecosystem. Smart is knowing the details that help us survive a specific ecosystem. (Adapting to an ecosystem we are not a part of and memorizing useless information are signs of decadence and… Continue reading
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Community Building With Language
When teenagers bond, they create their own language from a lexicon of shared emotional experiences. Because of their inexperience, these are mostly from modern pop culture; song lyrics and movie quotes. When young parents bond with other young parents, they… Continue reading
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Adapting To Virtual Reality
Are we making technology that undermines our long term ability to even make/repair that technology? Calculators reduce the need to know math. Thus, fewer people know and can do the math required to make calculators. If the calculators are then… Continue reading
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The Evolution of Guilt
Unless a parent is completely honest with their teenagers, the only way for a parent to protect their teenagers from making the same mistakes the parent made is to punish the teens for the parent’s secret guilt and shame. The… Continue reading
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Bad Grades
Ultimately, the political crisis we see today is the long term effect of an education system that teaches students to develop their self-esteem entirely around the idea of success and failure according to grades. Neither side knows how to see… Continue reading
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