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Hannah Fry

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first: 2020-07-07
most recent: 2020-07-07
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“It's difficult, it's not particularly inspiring, or if it's taught in a very straight fashion, it's not particularly inspiring. So in terms of what schools can do, I mean, I think for me I've really seen a difference when teachers really put in the effort to demonstrate just how useful this stuff is. I think one of the big complaints that you get from school kids is like, well, I'm never going to use this stuff. What's the point of it? It doesn't apply anywhere. And I think really showing just how dramatically important maths is to virtually every aspect of our modern world. I think that's something that can really make the subject come alive.”
2020-07-07 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it's a tough thing because, I mean, on the one hand, if you're ever going to be able to reach the most beautiful elements of the subject, if you're ever really going to be able to properly, to put it to use, you can't have your working memory being swamped by remembering all of these rules and remembering these really fundamental basics of the subject. So it's slightly unfortunate that that inevitably means that when you're starting out, when you're in the early stages, it has to be dominated by essentially learning the basics of the subject, something that's, you know,”
2020-07-07 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thing, but I think that that was really a stark change. Like, after that, then it became my thing. And then, you know, the more and more I got into it, the more and more it became part almost of my identity.”
2020-07-07 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like how you said math there for starters. Thank you for anglicizing it. Appreciate that. I think partly I was born that way. So, okay, actually what happened was when I was about 11 years old, my mum, I think she just didn't know what to do with us over at one summer holiday. So she bought me this math textbook and she made me sit down every day and do a page of this textbook before I was allowed to go out to the garden to play. And then when I went back to school that September after the summer, I was just so much better at the subject. I just understood everything. I'd seen everything before and I was just really well practiced at it. And I think that it's inevitable that if you're good at something, you just find it all the more enjoyable. And the more enjoyable you find something, the less like it feels like hard work. So I think that's it, really. I think that that's just, that was sort of the before then, I mean, I didn't dislike it at all, but I wouldn't have said it was my.”
2020-07-07 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think one of the big complaints that you get from school kids is like, well, I'm never going to use this stuff. What's the point of it? It doesn't apply anywhere. And I think really showing just how dramatically important maths is to virtually every aspect of our modern world. I think that that's something that can really make the subject come alive.”
2020-07-07 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT