151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack) Wed. May 22, 2024
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Episode 151: How Can We Motivate Underachieving Children Who Don't Want to Learn? (question on Quora; first answered on my Substack)
Wed., May 22, 2024
NB: the public schools are probably much worse than you suspect. But people don't want to deal with that information, so the Education Establishment gets away with doing a lousy job. I'm trying to persuade everybody to be more judgmental, more demanding, more of a catalyst.
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Relevant article: K-12: In Praise of WOW!
Joan Dunn’s book Retreat from Learning is available in Archive.org
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Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer.
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