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Stop Stealing Dreams (the entire manifesto on the web), cleaned up HTML version - Stop ... - 89 views

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  • It wasn’t until 1918 that nationwide compulsory education was in place.
    • Jacob Steiner
      Jacob Steiner on 31 Oct 12
       
      It's shocking that education (semi) as we know it was established less than 100 years ago. Just a century ago, children took their first steps and went straight to work in the factories.
  • Large-scale education was not developed to motivate kids or to create scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system. Scale was more important than quality, just as it was for most industrialists.
    • Jacob Steiner
      Jacob Steiner on 31 Oct 12
       
      It's really interesting that school was not creating for the students' benefits, but to mold these growing children into what they want. I've never thought about the concept of school like this.
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Progress on TIB Film - 88 views

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    #13 Jacob Steiner on 20 Sep 12
     
    Today I narrowed down my beliefs a little bit and wrote all my different letters on post-its in sharpie. When I get home I'm going to take pictures and make a stop motion of all of the letters coming together.
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15 Big Ways The Internet Is Changing Our Brain » Online College Search - Your... - 6 views

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  • We don't have to remember phone numbers or addresses anymore. Instead, we can just hop on our email or Google to look it up.
    • Jacob Steiner
      Jacob Steiner on 03 Sep 12
       
      Are we slowly becoming less capable to remember information and details because we can simply look it up on the computer?
  • Professor Betsy Sparrow reports, "We remember less through knowing information itself than by knowing where the information can be found."
    • Jacob Steiner
      Jacob Steiner on 03 Sep 12
       
      But is this truly advantageous? What if you don't have the materials to find what you need to find? Even if you know how to find it, you may not be able to all the time
  • Like so many others, he finds that "deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
    • Jacob Steiner
      Jacob Steiner on 03 Sep 12
       
      This has happened to me as well. Would playing these memory games help concentration on reading or would they simply be exercising other parts of your brain?
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  • "Five hours on the Internet and the naive subjects had already rewired their brains," noted Small, suggesting that over time, Internet use changes neural pathways.
    • Jacob Steiner
      Jacob Steiner on 03 Sep 12
       
      How will this affect our brains in the future? Will everyone be "master surfers" or will there still be a difference between people's capabilities?
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