Stone-Age Brains
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

Stone-Age Brains

Capacity limits are a critical feature of a system designed to generate predictions about the future.

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Romanticizing Learning
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

Romanticizing Learning

Knowledge is not just handed on around the campfire or out on the daily gather and hunt, apparently with no need to actually work at learning.

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The Musician's Muscle Memory
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

The Musician's Muscle Memory

Get the basics in place without error, and then you can add all the glorious creativity and interpretation.

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What's in Our Heads
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

What's in Our Heads

Only with facts at my fingertips could I play with information and see patterns I had never glimpsed before.

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Motivation
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

Motivation

The perceptions of an action, on a basic level, have already become my action.

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It's Nice to Be Nice to the Nice
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

It's Nice to Be Nice to the Nice

There appears a gap between who students claim to hold as models and who the students actually appear to imitate.

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Ancient Inventions
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

Ancient Inventions

The social forces of any real importance at any period are composed of the imitations of ancient inventions.

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Reading Aloud
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

Reading Aloud

Seventeen of the educators used the word joy to describe their own experiences of this unorthodox teaching method.

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Medieval Phonics
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

Medieval Phonics

The tendency throughout the Middle Ages is to see words in the first instance as single letters variously combined in syllables.

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Composition Is Recollection
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

Composition Is Recollection

What we now call "using our imagination," medieval people called "recollection," and they were neither wrong nor foolish to do so.

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Art Requires Memory
Josh Fisher Josh Fisher

Art Requires Memory

One cannot know or even think about what one does not "have in mind."

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