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because they've been exposed to it but they haven't practiced it they didn't revisit it and so most kids are going to forget it and like you know some for some it's going to set a fire under them they're going to realize like this is what you know i want to like pursue in life whatever that's going to happen occasionally and that's great but for a lot of them they're just going to forget it and we have we we have to live with ourselves and be satisfied with the idea that well all of the kids were at least exposed to this

Now, how do we make sure? I once interviewed Zaretta Hammond recently at ResearchEd in New York City, and she talked about something called brittle knowledge versus flexible knowledge.

How do we make sure that the knowledge is really flexible and transferring rather than just, oh, I got the main idea in this story, but I'm able to really understand on a much deeper level wherever it is?

Yeah, that terminology, the difference between brutal and flexible knowledge is getting at usage, like how you're able to use the knowledge.

And this comes back to a lot of the work that I was doing when you and I met, which I still do with schools.

And in fact, I just was speaking about this in Barcelona at ResearchEd.

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