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Who needs knowledge anyway?? With Maxwell Roach
"You're not going to walk around with a calculator in your pocket all your life" ... Or are we?Join Canadian education entrepreneur Maxwell Roach and I in our lively discussion on the role that actually knowing stuff plays in education. Do we need to know basic maths facts? Is the why more important than the what? Are some sectors of the population needed to just unquestioningly do grunt work? Is accelerated learning helpful or harmful?It's a fascinating and feisty discussion between two people with different educational ideologies. Check it out and tell us what side of the fence you fall…
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