Most Likely to Succeed How do we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job?
…the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year’s worth of material in one school year. The students in the class of a very good teacher will learn a year and a half’s worth of material. That difference amounts to a year’s worth of learning in a single year.
An interesting piece from Malcolm Gladwell on how hard it is to predict success in football and teaching, and of course it’s applicable in other fields as well.
