Some notes on the etymology of learning words in PIE langauges and Piraha

These are just notes that I took as part of a little project that I've been doing on Connective Analysis applied to education. I've posted them in response to some interesting stuff put on the twitter by @TabitaSurge Piraha The Piraha people live in the Amazon rainforest. They're hunter-gatherers. According to recent figures, there're about…

A critical distinction for teachers: duty-activities vs virtue-activities

In moral philosophy a distinction is often made between ethics based on duty and ethics based on virtue. It occurred to me today that we can apply a similar distinction to the kinds of things we can teach children to do: Actions or activities based on routines – a set of instructions or rules to follow. These are things…