Two More Things to Unlearn from School - LessWrong

In Three Things to Unlearn from School, Ben Casnocha cites Bill Bullard's list of three bad habits of thought: Attaching importance to personal opinions, solving given problems, and earning the appro…

x Two More Things to Unlearn from School — LessWrong Noticing Physics Education Rationality Frontpage 198 Two More Things to Unlearn from School by Eliezer Yudkowsky 12th Jul 2007 3 min read 157 198 In Three Things to Unlearn from School , Ben Casnocha cites Bill Bullard's list of three bad habits of thought: Attaching importance to personal opinions, solving given problems, and earning the approval of others. Bullard's proposed alternatives don't look very good to me, but Bullard has surely identified some important problems. I can think of other school-inculcated bad habits of thought, too m

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