Funzionano meglio PIU ore “sul campo”? SI.
Which brings me to Gladwell’s new book Outliers. One of his central arguments is that perspiration counts as much as inspiration. He reels off a number of success stories - Bill Gates, high-school ice hockey champs, the Beatles - where 10,000 hours of practice preceded their breakthrough. He hypothesises that this number of hours of practice is essential to success.
He proceeds to assert that successful schooling is down to the amount of time spent at school. The long summer vacation, and relatively short school hours, disadvantages American pupils, in particular poor ones. The reason why Asian pupils do better at maths, he suggests, is simply that they spend more time doing it. […]
Better services without reform? It’s just a con | Daniel Finkelstein - Times Online
