Tag: Guy Claxton

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Guy Claxton on Education for Lifetime Learning

Josie Holford / December 26, 2009

What’s the point of school?

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Slow Food, Slow School: John Cleese and the Promise of the Tortoise Brain

Josie Holford / September 28, 2008

There’s a slow food movement so why not a slow mind movement? Some years ago Guy Claxton wrote Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less. It made a compelling argument that the mind works best when we trust the unconscious – our “undermind” tortoise mind. The hare brain is the deliberative, logical, conscious thinking we all…

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