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the slow art of replacing your certainties with better questions
means The process of teaching and learning knowledge, skills, and understanding, usually through formal instruction but also through experience.
from From Latin educatio, from educare "to bring up, train, rear," which is tangled up with educere "to lead out, draw forth" (e-, "out," plus ducere, "to lead" — the same ducere behind duke, conduct, and aqueduct). Teachers love the educere story: education as drawing the potential out of a student rather than stuffing facts in. The two verbs were probably always intertwined in Latin, so both shades — the rearing and the leading-out — have a fair claim. English took the word up in the 16th century.
- oldest university
- Morocco's al-Qarawiyyin, founded by a woman in 859
- forgetting curve
- you lose most new facts within 24 hours
- compulsory schooling
- Prussia pioneered it partly to mold obedient soldiers
- literacy boom
- global rate rose from 12% to over 86%
- testing effect
- recalling beats rereading for actual learning
eton college — british boarding school founded 1440, educated 20 british prime ministers
university of bologna — founded 1088 in italy, oldest continuously operating university in the world
khan academy — free online platform founded 2008, over 250 million learners globally
harvard university — founded 1636 in massachusetts, ranks among top universities consistently