Thursday, June 4, 2020

How Are We Supposed to Teach? — Brad DeLong


Brad DeLong makes a frank admission.
The smart money has been that our success as an industry is primarily the result of the social-intellectual rather than the formal-intellectual component of higher education. But we are not sure. This problem, however, has been on the back burner for years… generations… perhaps centuries… because our “customers” have long been highly satisfied.
But now this knowledge problem of ours has suddenly become urgent. The social-intellectual component of education has come crashing down in the age of coronavirus. We badly need to retool. We badly need to retool immediately. Yet we do not know how to do so.…
Grasping Reality
How Are We Supposed to Teach?
Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

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