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by rp3 5y ago
As far as I know, which is admittedly not much, unstructured play as a mean of nurturing a child's independence, self-reliance, and creativity in a central tenet of Montessori.
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by rp3 5y ago
Where to begin? First, let's start with the most specific. Patrick claims to have written almost 3,000,000 words, which is almost 3 times the entire Harry Potter series. I'm not passing judgement on him. It's great that Patri
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by rp3 5y ago
I don't think many people want to send their kids to a crap shoot.
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by rp3 5y ago
Large systems, like a school system, need rules and procedures that help guarantee a relatively consistent outcome. The unstructured, exploratory nature of Montessori doesn't lend itself well to a a large-scale, systematic approach.
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by rp3 5y ago
More interesting is that reaching the 99.99th percentile is very difficult, and yet completely unremarkable. I love David Foster Wallace’s essay on this subject: “ Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Ce
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by rp3 5y ago
The stat about Virginia receiving 70% of all internet traffic seems to be often repeated: https://www.vedp.org/industry/data-centers I can’t find where that stat comes from, however. As for everything else you said, it
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by rp3 5y ago
They literally linked to a study, said "this is the best study", then said "this study didn't show benefits in [any] these areas", without mentioning the benefits the study did show. Belarus is/was not a countr
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by rp3 5y ago
The author made it seem like breastfeeding had no impact, but rather they just cherry-picked the conditions to look for from the study, making no mention of things that were impacted.
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by rp3 5y ago
I don't think you can generally claim that testers aren't to blame for bugs, nor that should they be credited for bug-free software. Obviously dedicated testers can't fix bugs themselves, so cannot be to solely to blame for b
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by rp3 5y ago
Did this author even read the papers she cites? > In the first camp — the randomized trial camp — we have one very large-scale study from Belarus. Known as the PROBIT trial, it was run in the 1990s and continued to follow up as the child
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by rp3 5y ago
The U.S. doesn't have guaranteed maternity leave. Even 4 months is considered generous. Many people will pump breast milk during the day, and deliver it to the baby in a bottle.
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by rp3 5y ago
Yes, but it's much less likely to happen when using Google.
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by rp3 5y ago
Am I the only one who finds this a poor visualization? If I zoom into a random position in the map that doesn't have a clearly dominant river system, it's impossible for me to tell which parts are of higher elevations than the oth