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September 7, 2016

Via: Education Next

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Harvard neuroscientist Todd Rose argues that designing education for the average student is fundamentally misguided — because there are no average students. He deploys a central analogy from the history of aeronautical design: In the 1940s, well-trained U.S. Air Force pilots began mysteriously crashing their mechanically sound planes.

It turned out that the new, more powerful jets were hard to control because of their one-size-fits-all cockpit design.

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