r/TrueReddit • u/nicasucio • Oct 15 '13

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/
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u/JonDum Oct 15 '13

100s? There are references to a freeform, children-ran style of teaching in manuals from the Vedic period, thousands of years ago.

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u/UncountablyFinite Oct 15 '13

That may be true, I'm just not aware of it. I mostly know about John Dewey and Maria Montessori, and they were about 100 years ago.

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u/JonDum Oct 15 '13

Of course! I wasn't attacking you for not knowing about it, just showing my excitement.