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The black box of teaching methods

Continuing with yesterday’s theme, bolstered by the unanimous agreement with my point of view (joke), I have been pondering why teaching methods continue to fly largely below the radar - despite their obvious importance. Here’s a posting that grapples with this puzzling phenomenon. In a nutshell, the author says that no one in the education world has an incentive to improve teaching methods. This is a sweeping claim obviously, but there must be some truth to it - otherwise, there would be a focus on better methods, which there clearly is not. Piranhas, attack!