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The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, communicating with other individuals, unknowingly assumes that the others have the background to understand. The more you know about a subject, the harder it becomes to communicate your knowledge to someone who knows nothing about the topic.
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Critical Thinking Cheat-sheet: Ask Who, What, Where, When, Why, How
#Science #Politics #Narrative #Economics #Military #Education
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You have just walked past a bookstore. Is there something wrong with you? (via)
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"An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory" - Paramahamsa Hariharananda
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“But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.” - Edward Gibbon
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Instructional scaffolding is the support given to a student by an instructor throughout the learning process. This support is specifically tailored to each student; this instructional approach allows students to experience student-centered learning, which tends to facilitate more efficient learning than teacher-centered learning. This learning process promotes a deeper level of learning than many other common teaching strategies.
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Shoshin (初心) is a word from Zen Buddhism meaning "beginner's mind."
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"If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are." - Zen Proverb
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“We’ve arranged a society based on science & technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance & power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” - Carl Sagan (1996)
