18 May

This is a short video about an educational genius. I doubt many people have ever heard of him, or of the approach he invented, called Direct Instruction. It wipes the floor with every other educational approach it's been put up against. This is powerful to watch not just because of the genius of Zig or of DI, but because it also shows why progress in education is so hard to find. You can see directly here the ways good ideas get shut down, in education. It isn't anything to do with funding really, mostly when education asks for more money it just wants smaller classes to keep doing the same dumb things, with less disruption.