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education

Vaughn Tan3rd January 2021 at 11:56am

A catch-all for mentions of school and pedagogy—which seem to generally be designed to promote the risk mindset in students. In so doing, education is preventing students from being ready to do the work of uncertainty in what is clearly going to be an uncertain future. Maybe they should be thinking about teaching to develop the uncertainty mindset instead.

See also: adaptability, delusion, negative capability, the work of uncertainty.