This MIT Professor Has Figured Out The Future Of Education. And It Makes A Ton Of Sense.

We spend tons of money and tons of time taking tests and sitting through lectures and, ostensibly, learning. So why don’t any of us really know anything? (No offense.) Because apparently we’ve been doing college all wrong.

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Erica Williams Simon

Jul 21, 2014

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