Education

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The Case Against Education

Zvi15 Apr 2018 12:30 UTC

73 points

45 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Sheepskin Effect

Zvi5 May 2018 12:10 UTC

10 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to teach things well

Neel Nanda28 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC

65 points

12 comments15 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

The True Face of the Enemy

TheTrueSquidward12 Jan 2021 10:03 UTC

25 points

75 comments10 min readLW link

How my school gamed the stats

Srdjan Miletic20 Feb 2021 19:23 UTC

75 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC

212 points

36 comments34 min readLW link

Book Review: How Learning Works

whales19 Jan 2014 20:45 UTC

57 points

16 comments17 min readLW link

The Case Against Education: Foundations

Zvi21 Apr 2018 14:30 UTC

27 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Effective children education

kotrfa3 Jun 2020 20:35 UTC

46 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Stories About Education

Ben Pace4 Sep 2019 19:53 UTC

38 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] When should we expect the education bubble to pop? How can we short it?

jacobjacob9 Feb 2019 21:39 UTC

35 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Problems in Education

ThinkOfTheChildren29 Apr 2013 21:00 UTC

49 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

Interesting critique of British education by outgoing advisor (warning: some politics)

bramflakes12 Oct 2013 16:43 UTC

39 points

36 comments13 min readLW link

The Case Against Education: Splitting the Education Premium Pie and Considering IQ

Zvi29 Apr 2018 12:40 UTC

7 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Scientifically optimizing education: Hard problem, or solved problem? Introducing the Theory of Direct Instruction

Owen_Richardson31 Aug 2011 5:28 UTC

22 points

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What Direct Instruction is

[deleted]4 Sep 2011 23:03 UTC

69 points

81 comments4 min readLW link

Review: Michel Thomas French (Direct Instruction)

[deleted]22 Sep 2011 8:34 UTC

40 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

What is wrong with mathematics education?

Perplexed20 Mar 2011 2:40 UTC

24 points

56 comments1 min readLW link

The Case Against Education: Why Do Employers Tolerate It?

NaiveTortoise10 Jun 2018 23:28 UTC

14 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(an1lam.github.io)

A Gamification Of Education: a modest proposal based on the Universal Decimal Classification and RPG skill trees

Ritalin7 Jul 2013 18:27 UTC

18 points

80 comments6 min readLW link

Online education and Conscientiousness

gwern24 Feb 2012 21:05 UTC

21 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Education control?

PhilGoetz17 May 2013 16:32 UTC

21 points

43 comments2 min readLW link

A Rational Education

wedrifid23 Jun 2010 5:48 UTC

19 points

149 comments4 min readLW link

Separating university education from grading

Stefan_Schubert3 Jul 2014 17:23 UTC

16 points

60 comments2 min readLW link

Minerva Project: the future of higher education?

Natha10 Nov 2014 5:59 UTC

18 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Education as Entertainment and the Downfall of LessWrong

SquirrelInHell4 Mar 2016 14:06 UTC

14 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

Education via Cell Phone in Africa

[deleted]22 Dec 2012 17:47 UTC

12 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Seeking education

APMason17 Feb 2012 0:55 UTC

11 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Role-reversal education for math and science students (pilot project)

EvelynM1 Jan 2012 0:09 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

I Want to Learn About Education

fiddlemath20 Jan 2011 3:46 UTC

12 points

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There are 125 sheep and 5 dogs in a flock. How old is the shepherd? / Math Education

James_Miller17 Oct 2016 0:12 UTC

9 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Remembering school math fondly

[deleted]27 Nov 2016 18:00 UTC

5 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Rethinking Education

adamzerner15 Feb 2014 5:22 UTC

−1 points

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The Future of Education

Michelle_Z14 Feb 2012 20:58 UTC

0 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

Choosing universities based on their major-specific strengths for undergraduate education

VipulNaik5 Oct 2013 0:44 UTC

3 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Experimenting with education [link]

Dr_Manhattan23 Feb 2011 13:21 UTC

3 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?

JohnBuridan6 Jul 2020 23:34 UTC

145 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

The Math Learning Experiment

Qiaochu_Yuan21 Mar 2018 21:59 UTC

51 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

Teachers vs. Tutors

[deleted]26 Oct 2010 16:59 UTC

18 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Tutoring Small Groups of Children (for money)

bramflakes20 Feb 2013 11:51 UTC

11 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Jul 2015 22:30 UTC

170 points

26 comments13 min readLW link

A Second Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast1 May 2016 22:14 UTC

65 points

30 comments21 min readLW link

Advanced Placement exam cutoffs and superficial knowledge over deep knowledge

JonahS1 Sep 2013 21:01 UTC

10 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Career prospects for physics majors

JonahS4 Apr 2014 3:02 UTC

19 points

32 comments5 min readLW link

Don’t depend on others to ask for explanations

Wei_Dai18 Sep 2019 19:12 UTC

77 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Is Rationality Teachable?

lukeprog1 Sep 2011 11:59 UTC

64 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

Was a PhD necessary to solve outstanding math problems?

AllAmericanBreakfast10 Jul 2020 18:43 UTC

22 points

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[Link] Offense 101

Alejandro124 Oct 2012 21:28 UTC

45 points

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Numeracy neglect—A personal postmortem

vlad.proex27 Sep 2020 15:12 UTC

77 points

28 comments9 min readLW link

Debugging the student

adamzerner16 Dec 2020 7:07 UTC

38 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawise2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC

127 points

5 comments12 min readLW link

Education 2.0 — A brand new education system

aryan15 Jul 2020 10:09 UTC

−8 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Bounds of Attention

squidious5 Apr 2018 22:53 UTC

26 points

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Calibrate your self-assessments

Scott Alexander9 Oct 2011 23:26 UTC

93 points

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Epistemic Viciousness

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 23:33 UTC

90 points

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Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Benquo15 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC

83 points

39 comments19 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Cognito Mentoring: An advising service for intellectually curious students

JonahS31 Dec 2013 22:03 UTC

84 points

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Bring up Genius

Viliam8 Jun 2017 17:44 UTC

93 points

60 comments20 min readLW link

Commentary On “The Abolition of Man”

Vaniver15 Jul 2019 18:56 UTC

58 points

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Problems in Education

ThinkOfTheChildren8 Apr 2013 21:29 UTC

92 points

322 comments1 min readLW link

Being a teacher

Swimmer96314 Mar 2011 20:03 UTC

78 points

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Explicit Expectations when Teaching

Hazard4 Feb 2018 14:12 UTC

21 points

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Please Press “Record”

johnswentworth11 Mar 2020 23:56 UTC

48 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

What is a School?

Zvi13 Mar 2020 22:00 UTC

51 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Teaching Ladders

alkjash24 Jan 2018 19:01 UTC

28 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Reading Papers in Undergrad

ryan_b9 Nov 2017 19:24 UTC

17 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Teaching the Unteachable

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2009 23:14 UTC

49 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Drawing Less Wrong: An Introduction

Raemon13 Nov 2011 22:39 UTC

46 points

38 comments3 min readLW link

The Lesson To Unlearn

Ben Pace8 Dec 2019 0:50 UTC

37 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(paulgraham.com)

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC

26 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

The Best Educational Institution in the World

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:18 UTC

38 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

Room and Board for People Self-Learning ML or Doing Independent ML Research

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:19 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Stanford Intro to AI course to be taught for free online

Psy-Kosh30 Jul 2011 16:22 UTC

38 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

Living By Your Own Strength

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Dec 2008 0:37 UTC

35 points

32 comments5 min readLW link

Rationality Games & Apps Brainstorming

lukeprog9 Jul 2012 3:04 UTC

42 points

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Valuable economics knowledge available, ironically, for free

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jul 2013 11:30 UTC

38 points

37 comments6 min readLW link

Practical debiasing

crazy8820 Nov 2011 9:45 UTC

38 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking

gwern7 Jul 2012 23:50 UTC

39 points

16 comments11 min readLW link

How to Teach Students to Not Guess the Teacher’s Password?

Petruchio4 Jan 2013 15:18 UTC

35 points

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Random advice: Teenage U.S. LW-ers should probably be taking more AP exams

HonoreDB7 Apr 2011 4:37 UTC

34 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

Preschoolers learning to guess the teacher’s password [link]

Unnamed18 Mar 2011 4:13 UTC

34 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Guessing the Teacher’s Password

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Aug 2007 3:40 UTC

165 points

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The Blue School

Voltairina16 Apr 2012 18:15 UTC

31 points

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Bogus Exam Questions

Donald Hobson28 Mar 2020 12:56 UTC

18 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Deliberate Grad School

Academian4 Oct 2015 10:11 UTC

36 points

155 comments3 min readLW link

{Math} A times tables memory.

aaq1 Dec 2019 15:40 UTC

19 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

The Ancient God Who Rules High School

lifelonglearner5 Apr 2017 18:55 UTC

13 points

113 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Request for advice: high school transferring

argella421 Mar 2016 22:27 UTC

12 points

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Should students be allowed to give good teachers a bonus?

AllAmericanBreakfast2 Nov 2020 0:19 UTC

25 points

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Can we teach Rationality at the University of Reddit?

Lightwave20 Aug 2012 21:59 UTC

32 points

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Human capital or signaling? No, it’s about doing the Right Thing and acquiring karma

VipulNaik20 Apr 2014 21:04 UTC

33 points

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[Link] Why the kids don’t know no algebra

GLaDOS4 Jul 2012 10:29 UTC

30 points

165 comments4 min readLW link

Help Reform A Philosophy Curriculum

JonathanLivengood8 Dec 2012 22:45 UTC

38 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

khan Academy—Rationality series?

Goobahman12 Dec 2011 1:54 UTC

23 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Link: Writing exercise closes the gender gap in university-level physics

Vladimir_Golovin27 Nov 2010 16:28 UTC

27 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian examination

Lê Nguyên Hoang9 Dec 2019 19:50 UTC

84 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

Something Was Wrong

Zvi5 Aug 2017 14:48 UTC

9 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Two More Things to Unlearn from School

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jul 2007 17:45 UTC

116 points

155 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Good brainteasers for children?

ejacob2 Mar 2021 6:44 UTC

12 points

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[Question] Asking questions to fulfill expectations

erkenbrand19 Mar 2021 2:27 UTC

3 points

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Some things I’ve learned in college

aaronb5025 Mar 2021 21:30 UTC

21 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

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