How could a modern educator “take into account the value of [a] natural home atmosphere”? • Mason says it “stultifies a child to bring the world to the ‘child’s’ level,” but are there times when you have to do that? • What do you think Mason would say about Internet usage restrictions in schools? Ask questions that require learners to create someth

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Being an autididact is anti-mimetic in itself because the force driving the learning path is one’s interest and desire generated by the material itself, not a pre-determined path constructed by people who want to produce a certain kind of ‘product’ (in the American education system, for example, that used to be good industrial workers; now it’s shi... See more

through curiosity can reveal people to themselves. But formal education largely remains a vocational enterprise in which, Sir Ken argues, we are being steered away from the things we love “on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that.” Love has been rationalized out of the system of education, but it is central to the deeply personal an

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