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KPier comments on Teenage Rationalists and Changing Your Mind - Less Wrong Discussion

48 Post author: KPier 05 August 2011 06:19PM

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Comment author: KPier 06 August 2011 05:08:41AM 5 points [-]

We were a honors class in a gifted school, so once we got over our initial shock it worked pretty well. But you may be right this isn't a viable approach for your average student. Your third grade class is impressive; do you remember what they covered? Was it curriculum or initiative on the part of your teacher?

Comment author: handoflixue 06 August 2011 09:58:38PM 3 points [-]

It was a special program, run by three teachers, who got to set their own curriculum, so class that as you will. It was absolutely wonderful compared to public school. Aside from what I mentioned above, we covered all the usual subjects, and a lot of random ones - we learned how to play the stock market for our economics lessons, we went and saw bridges to learn about them, and we did a lot of arts and crafts.