Sunday, August 22, 2010
Robin Hanson & Education
My favorite topic (Education), my favorite 2 sub-topics (Gatto & Sudbury) and my favorite thinker...one place. Only problem: It's disappeared off the site, and doesn't seem to be google-cached...so I have to quote, in full, from my rss feed. Robin says it was accidentally posted 2 days early, and has been withdrawn until then. I will repost with my thoughts on Monday as well.
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This is quite good as a redefinition of work.
The leaders of the Sudbury school were truly exceptional people.
I'm not well versed in methodological individualism, but I suspect this is the critical point, often overlooked for its uncomfortable implications.
To render it in academic jargon worthy of my dissertation-in-progress: Capabilities and knowledge are heterogeneously distributed (everyone's different). Knowledge resides in individual human brains (tacit) before it is made available to institutions (explicit), if it ever is.
Perfect example of the preceding from the business world: the Ford Taurus. For Ford, Taurus was a genuine achievement...but less than a decade, even the people who were on Team Taurus who were still around couldn't remember much about how they did it (no one made their tacit knowledge explicit).
Long story short: Individual abilities and motivations matter a lot.
Ken,
Great point. I hadn't attached this to the general case, but once you bring it up, it seems hard to dispute.
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