NPR: Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning
by ALIX SPIEGEL November 12, 2012 In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth-grade math class. “The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes …
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