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- Forward is good, staying still is bad, and looking backward is worse. But true progress can only happen when we reflect on the risks and consequences of the choices we make. Meaningful progress is about using our abilities and resources to create a world where anyone can thrive.
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A growing and influential intellectual movement aims to understand why human progress happens – and how to speed it up. Garrison Lovely investigates.
- Garrison Lovely
Apr 12, 2024 · The idea of progress is inherently an idea that progress, overall, is good. If “progress” is destructive, if it does not in fact improve human well-being, then it hardly deserves the name. Contrast this with the concept of growth.
The idea of learning or developing without progress would be absurd. However, as Lec’s delightful quote implies, the concept of progress needs to be carefully and collectively understood by teachers and pupils alike in order for it to be meaningful.
Sep 9, 2014 · September 9, 2014. The stock narrative of the Industrial Revolution is one of moral and economic progress. Indeed, economic progress is cast as moral progress. The story tends to go...
- Jeremy Caradonna
Feb 24, 2021 · Meaningful progress is about using our abilities and resources to create a world where anyone can thrive. This involves questioning our own assumptions, acknowledging how different technologies...
- Amy Nordrum
Oct 29, 2018 · In the current School Inspection Handbook, there are 124 uses of the word ‘progress’. But nowhere does it spell out what ‘progress’ means. The nearest thing to a definition appears on page 52 in section on Inspecting Mathematics. It’s a quote from the National Curriculum and worth reading in full:
Jun 18, 2018 · The idea of progress only works if we’re clear about what it means – and only if we give it the weight the concept can sustain. If we have something absolute like the time it takes to run a 5K race or how far we can jump in long jump, progress is measurable: we measure it in the scale of the time or distance that we use for the thing itself.