Tuesday, April 10, 2012

How Peer Pressure Could Fix the Education System

What people around us consider important, we tend to consider important. If we are surrounded by people who care about education, we are also likely to care about education. If they value studying hard and learning, then we are likely to as well.
By divvying students into groups of motivated and unmotivated students such that motivated students dominate the peer culture, a culture of hard work and learning should prevail. But what ratio of motivated students to underperforming students is necessary to tilt the scales in the direction of high performance?

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Gossip Gorillas: the Gossip Theory of Everything

Pretty much everything special about being human comes down to language, or more pointedly, gossip.  Evolutionary anthropology tells us that...