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# What If Everything You Knew About Education Was Wrong? (Paperback edition) Reprint Edition

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    This is the "red pill".
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2017*

It says something about the institution of public education that Didau decided he needed to open this book with more than 100 pages on the psychological and statistical reasons why we -- both collectively and individually -- can be wrong about things we have always taken for granted. He does so with with the intention of leaving you, as he puts it, "thoroughly tenderized", and ready to be convinced that most of what constitutes "accepted best practice" today has about as much empirical backing as the medical procedures of a thousand years ago. Hold the leeches, guys! I think he's on to something.The title should be taken literally. Didau does not seem to be out to push a new framework or gimmick, but to make you think skeptically about anyone that does, and to make you realize that most of your teacher education was probably a stew of this rubbish.This is not to say that Didau has no recommendations. He does! But you will be surprised at how tentative he is about some of them, by how shaken he has been left from his own experience of swallowing the metaphorical "red pill". Can we be absolutely certain of anything? Perhaps not. But some pedagogical assertions are absolutely better supported by science than others, and Didau gives you a fascinating tour of things you would be justified in trying in your classroom.If you're like me, you've already been doing some of what he suggests under a cloud of baseless guilt. But you will find some other suggestions so shockingly counter-intuitive that you'll bleed out your highlighter and shake yourself dizzy doing double takes. You will pace the room thinking nervously about just how much your bosses trust you, and wonder whether you actually have the stomach to take these kinds of risks.There are a pair of interesting appendices (bonus chapters, really) by Didau's collaborators at the end. As an American, I can't speak much to Jack Markwood's look at the (lack of) value in the data collected by England's educational system. But I will commend Andrew Sabisky's "Five myths about intelligence" for its clarity and courage. IQ is, as he acknowledges, an "impolite" subject.If you're looking for catchy acronyms and feel-good fluff, look elsewhere. This isn't that kind of book. It is very readable, with a conversational semi-scholarly style. But it is not *easy*.If Didau is right, this is absolutely for the best.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Hey educator/parent/ed policymaker: Going to read one education book this year? Make it this one.
  

*by E***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2015*

At this point of my life, I've read a LOT of books about education: ed policy, ed theory, ed history, ed practice, ed this, ed that, ed cetera. I can't say, though, that I've read any quite like David Didau's here, mainly because I haven't encountered anything that so effortlessly and thoughtfully mashes up all the standard ed book types. On one hand it's a useful research work, challenging some long-accepted practical truisms to explain and demonstrate how cognitive scientific findings can enhance classroom practice. On another, it's a note of affirmation from a colleague in education's trenches. On still another--well, that'd be three hands, and two is quite enough. You get the idea.In short this book taught me a lot, made me argue with it occasionally, and presented information I'd previously been familiar with in fresh, exceedingly clever ways. If you love reading about education and are passionate to learn more about what can work and why, I can't recommend many single titles more highly than this one.

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    One of the best books on education I've read!
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2015*

This is one of the better books on education and learning I've read. And I've read quite a few. It does a splendid job of pulling together a lot of research and applying it to the task of education, without being prescriptive or idealogical. It is a long book, and the first section about our various biases was a load to plow through. The book moves much quicker after that first section though. Well worth the effort!

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