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Schools should embrace entertainment because it lets you scale inspiration.
Entertainment is not amusement. Entertainment means engaging a person's attention in a way that makes the time pass pleasantly. The ancient Greeks knew this intuitively and wrapped their most important ideas in narratives instead of just giving dry facts.
For example, plays like The Iliad and The Odyssey weren't just a form of entertainment. They provided cultural instruction too.
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People usually learn things because they need to. They are either frustrated by something in themselves or the world. Maybe they're not making enough money to support their family, or a loved one is sick.
In these cases, they're entering a survival mode where they're urged to actio...
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In our modern world, the masters of storytelling come from Hollywood and YouTube. These creators use many of the same tools the Greeks discovered.
But now it costs nearly nothing to spread great entertainment and education to the world.
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Favourite teachers usually care about their subjects and speak with excitement and enthusiasm.
Physicist Richard Feynman was known for making physics come alive for many people. Watching his lectures inspires one to study physics. From Feynman, we've learned that education starts with inspi...
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If we want an educated citizenry that enjoys learning and knows how to take advantage of all the available information on the internet, we need to inspire people.
Education and learning theorists propose that students learn best when it is associated with strong pos...
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We can move to a system of inspiration by inverting the learning process. Instead of starting with the building blocks and moving towards curiosity, students should be guided by curiosity and then move toward the building blocks.
The benefits of memorization will become se...
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