Culture Studies

with which to acquire fundamental skills. Beyond that minimum, further credits would go to those who earned them by teaching, whether they served as models in organized skill centers or did so privately at home or on the playground. Only those who had taught others for an equivalent amount of time would have a claim on the time of more advanced tea

“The formal education system came out of the military, where the least educated and most educationally deprived people were sent into the army,” he says. “In order for them not to think, which is what you wanted them to do, they had to obey orders. Military training was extremely regimented and linear. You pounded the information into their brains

The design of an education system has to reflect many assumptions – about the future, about what ‘fulfilment’ means, about family life – many of which are contested. No wonder education is so contentious. Changing views of developing young minds But there is another set of assumptions on which education rests that is not to do with society, but to

“You can’t understand Google … unless you know that both Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids.”