> A 1992 World Bank evaluation of Colombia’s schools concluded that poor youngsters educated this way — learning by doing, rather than being endlessly drilled for national exams — generally outperformed their better-off peers in traditional schools.
Given learning by 'doing' is known to be worse I wonder if they have hit some sort of local maxima.
"Given learning by 'doing' is known to be worse I wonder if they have hit some sort of local maxima."
I'm curious - would you be able to expand on this? I find that I prefer learning by doing projects, building, etc as opposed to reading/problem sets/etc. Has there been research to compare the two approaches?
Given learning by 'doing' is known to be worse I wonder if they have hit some sort of local maxima.