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95: Learning to Learn (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

The Thinking Practitioner

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The Rip Van Winkle Syndrome in Education

The story of Rip Van Winkle is a guy who falls asleep for 20 years or whatever it is some period of time and wakes back up in modern day. He's just like completely, you know, astonished at all the things that are happening. And then somebody takes him into a building,. into a classroom and he says, oh, I know what this is. It's a school. That's one of those things yet. Or ideas about how to get people information haven't changed. Like here, they're grinding up the books and putting them right in the students' head. The shift in perspective that might really help us to think of learning is an attitude rather than an activity.

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