Why Don't Students Like School by Willingham Daniel T

Author:Willingham, Daniel T. [Willingham, Daniel T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780470730447
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2009-06-10T05:00:00+00:00

What’s true of reading is true of most or all school subjects, and of the skills we want our students to have.They are hierarchical.There are basic processes (like retrieving math facts or using deductive logic in science) that initially are demanding of working memory but with practice become automatic.Those processes must become automatic in order for students to advance their thinking to the next level.The great philosopher Alfred North Whitehead captured this phenomenon in this comment:“It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copybooks and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing.The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”1

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