School Is Slow Because It’s Miscalibrated

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School isn’t slow because it’s hard, it’s slow because it’s miscalibrated.

When students are given learning tasks exactly along their edge of mastery, their learning speeds up by orders of magnitude.

They attain their natural, frictionless pace.

So much student potential is lost to needless pedagogical friction.

Like a thermodynamic engine where most of the energy is lost as heat instead of producing useful work.

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