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s really about praising the process

“Mother’s praise to their babies, one to three years of age, predicts that child’s mindset and desire for challenge five years later,”

“It doesn’t mean it is set in stone, but it means that kind of value system — what you’re praising, what you say is important — it’s sinking in. And the kids who are getting this process praise, strategy and taking on hard things and sticking to them, those are the kids who want the challenge.”

Some teachers discuss metacognition with students

“When we have a rich meta-strategic base for our thinking, that helps us to be more independent learners,”

question the entire premise of the education system, which is based on IQ as the single measure of intelligence and cognitive ability.

“People who scored really highly on our imaginative test show greater brain connectivity between these brain networks that are talked about a lot in the literature as being at odds

imaginative, creative people are good at disconnecting the attention network in order to enter a flow state when they generate ideas

Paul’s book review discusses Ripley’s study of three cultures’ perspective of education: Finland, South Korea, and Poland.

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global economy, kids needed to be driven; they need to know how to adapt, since they would be doing it all their lives. They needed a culture of rigor.’”

student gardens

childrens’ literature that encourages empathy and love toward nature

means acting impulsively, without showing due restraint, in a way that’s aggressive or plays up another personality trait.

Disinhibition