Social learning theory says we learn most from watching others fail rather than from being told not to fail

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Hard skills get you hired and soft skills get you kept — but soft is a terrible word for the hardest thing to learn Teaching a subject is the best way to learn it twice — the protégé effect in real classrooms Lectures survived 900 years not because they work but because they scale — active learning now has the data and the lecture has the tradition Bloom's two-sigma problem: one-on-one tutoring outperforms classrooms by two standard deviations and nobody knows how to scale it Spaced repetition software like Anki works because it schedules review right at the edge of forgetting Zone of proximal development — Vygotsky's idea that the best teaching works just beyond what you can do alone Adult learning theory insists adults learn differently — the evidence is thinner than the confidence Transfer of learning is the graveyard of good teaching — skills learned in one context rarely move to another without help Dewey's learning by doing and Skinner's programmed instruction are opposite answers to the same question: what actually changes behavior Flipped classrooms trade lecture time for problem time and the evidence favors them — when students actually do the pre-work

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