Learning Power Teaching with Attitude, Guy Claxton, TEDx Norrkoping ED

One of the most significant things that children learn in school is to be taught. They learn the skills and attitudes that are required to thrive (or oppose) a teacherled environment. In traditional schools the attitudes included passivity, dependence, credulity, instrumentality and timidity. These are compatible with getting good grades, but not with becoming a powerful, independent reallife learner. As adults, our lives are diminished if we carry these attitudes forward with us into work, family life an