Category: Education

The difference between active and passive reading If you’re someone that reads for increased understanding, how well you read can have a significant impact on your life. This is not about the title of the book you read, or whether you read 30 or 50 books a year, it’s about whether you read actively or…

Why I’m keen to learn the Humanities I remember being in year 12 and being forced to read a book where I had to analyse every sentence, searching for hidden meanings and how a certain character represented the meaning of life. I thought it was absolute baloney. 20 years on and I’ve finally worked out…

General intelligence, what is it? The education system is built around siloed learning – you learn maths, you learn computer science, you learn chemistry. But most people that do well in maths and chemistry will find themselves at the top of their English class as well. And these people are almost certainly going to be…

How the education system will look in 30 years The education system has looked the same for 150 years, but recent changes in technology mean that we’re going to see a change. A change for the better. I think the education system will look dramatically different in the coming decades. Yes, I’m idealistic in general,…

Learning how to improve your learning The highest leverage activity we can undertake is improving how we learn. The most important step in improving how we learn is understanding how we learn. Increasing the speed with which we learn is the highest-leverage activity we can do. Every decision we make, every experience we have; they’re…

Bob, the education system There is nothing wrong with the current education system. It’s just that it promotes inequality, doesn’t really help with learning (in fact, often discourages people from learning) and doesn’t prepare students for success in most roles that exist in the workplace. Other than that, it’s great. The problem is the system…