Helen Demetriou and Bill Nicholl argue that empathy, and not necessity, is the mother of invention. They studied pupils from two schools. While one school continued with its lessons as usual, the other replaced its lessons with a kit named Designing Our Tomorrow, which includes instructions on empathy. The pupils from the second school showed a considerable increase in emotional and cognitive creativity. Solely understanding the subject matter at a rational level doesn’t seem to be enough to solve our issues. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
