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Life, School, and the 80:20 Rule - xsrus.com

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Most people sense that school today is poor preparation for the world of work. I think there is a fundamental reason why: linearity. School is a

Life, School, and the 80:20 Rule - xsrus.com xsrus.com About Writing Substack Twitter Contact Work Life, School, and the 80:20 Rule September 25, 2019 Most people sense that school today is poor preparation for the world of work. I think there is a fundamental reason why: linearity. School is a linear system. By that, I mean the material in classes is presented sequentially, in more or less equally-sized chunks. My school called these chunks “ units”. In maths, the functions unit came before the differentiation unit, and so on. At the end of a unit there was always a test. Supposedly, the purp

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