Comments on: Wouldn’t staying in school obviously make you smarter? https://www.isegoria.net/2019/01/wouldnt-staying-in-school-obviously-make-you-smarter/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Lucklucky https://www.isegoria.net/2019/01/wouldnt-staying-in-school-obviously-make-you-smarter/comment-page-1/#comment-2726255 Lucklucky Thu, 03 Jan 2019 15:08:19 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44301#comment-2726255 From my experience the most important thing to do to children is to ask them questions.

]]> By: CVLR https://www.isegoria.net/2019/01/wouldnt-staying-in-school-obviously-make-you-smarter/comment-page-1/#comment-2726020 CVLR Wed, 02 Jan 2019 19:12:55 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44301#comment-2726020 All children should be held in state-sponsored facilities until they turn 30.

It is the only way.

]]> By: Harper’s Notes https://www.isegoria.net/2019/01/wouldnt-staying-in-school-obviously-make-you-smarter/comment-page-1/#comment-2725985 Harper’s Notes Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:09:44 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44301#comment-2725985 Awhile back on my own I did a fairly detailed literature review search on possible academic benefits of chess playing. The methods and sample sizes were very depressing. Rarely even any attempt at control groups. Random selection made useless by high chess class dropout rates. And on and on. Almost all of the studies were published in education journals. The correct phrasing,always mangled of course by journalists and others, should be more like — from the studies done so far nothing at all can be conclusively said. All that being said I am mostly skeptical about chess benefits, though get some intense experience with spatial reasoning in schools that otherwise have completed removed any spatial reasoning even from geometry courses might help in that somewhat general area of thought processing. Blind fold chess would be best, but the drop-out rates would be above 90% most likely.

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