David Perell: Modern education ignores 70 to 80 years of learning science
David Perell · Writing, Religion, and Walt Disney with David Perell · Nov 17, 2022 · at 9:50
David Perell, founder of Write of Passage, criticizes the legacy education system while discussing the need for cohort-based online learning.
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“None of the learning science that has come out in the last 70 to 80 years has actually been implemented.”
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