The recently posted Behind Classic Education at EduClassics.com says that the site started with one assumption: It is useful to know what other people know, how they use what they know, and results they get from what they know. This assumption undergirds a sociology of learning where learning exists as a social process.
For teachers, this view gives priority to technical descriptions based on results of experimental empirical behavioral and social science research that describe choices people make while learning. Further, this view exists as part of a general cultural, but not popular, literacy that sets a standard for social continuity.