People Fixing the World - Teaching Kids To Think

Giving children lessons in how to think and learn for themselves can lead to dramatic improvements in results, according to education researchers.

World Hacks meets children learning these “meta-cognition” techniques through philosophy lessons and juggling and looks at the difficulties in implementing the system.

Presented by Sahar Zand.

Image caption: Child with hand up in class / Image credit: AP

Published on Saturday, 10th December 2016.

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