{"id":70419,"date":"2012-05-25T23:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T07:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16827"},"modified":"2012-05-25T23:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T07:17:12","slug":"the-dao-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/25\/the-dao-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dao of Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accidental Blogger<\/a> points me to a rather funny event, the yearly victory of some brown kid in the National Spelling Bee<\/i>. ‘I was nervous’: Texas whiz kid beats teens in 2012 National Geographic Bee<\/a>. This Texas whiz kid, Rahul Nagvekar, beat a prodigy from Wisconsin, Vansh Jain. Here were the 10 finalists for the GeoBee<\/a>:<\/p>\n

– Raghav Ranga, Arizona
\n– Varun Mahadevan, California
\n– Anthony Stoner, Louisiana
\n– Adam Rusak, Maryland
\n– Karthik Karnik, Massachusetts
\n– Gopi Ramanathan, Minnesota
\n– Neelam Sandhu, New Hampshire
\n– Rahul Nagvekar, Texas
\n– Anthony Cheng, Utah
\n– Vansh Jain, Wisconsin<\/p>\n

Speaking of bees, the National Spelling Bee<\/a> is coming up. Here are the contestants<\/a> (page down). And here’s a list of the 2012 Intel Science Contest<\/a> finalists. And winners of the American Mathematics Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think it’s great that kids from certain demographics do so well at these academic competitions. But I have to be honest and wonder if sometimes we aren’t seeing individuals who are so focused on the measure, that they forget what we’re trying to measure.<\/b> God knows I think metrics are very important, but the pursuit of knowledge ultimately has nothing to do with a panel …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accidental Blogger points me to a rather funny event, the yearly victory of some brown kid in the National Spelling Bee. ‘I was nervous’: Texas whiz kid beats teens in 2012 National Geographic Bee. This Texas whiz kid, Rahul Nagvekar, beat …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70419"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70473,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70419\/revisions\/70473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}