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School is Not Enough
The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child. Purposeful work and achieving mastery are tools to getting there. They aren’t the results of learning and imagination, it’s the other way around—learning is simply the consequence of doing. To understand this is to understand the ecology that fosters genius and talent.
Simon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
Mass schooling attempts a systematization of skill and knowledge transfer. The results are predictably mediocre—systems at scale must function with and cater to the lowest common denominator, and the process of standardization loses all sensitivity to context. Since everyone must do the same things, it is difficult for any student to do
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Through the construct of ‘schooling’, we have designed an environment for conditioning people to see knowledge acquisition as being directly associated with structure (through classes) and success (through grades), when in reality, most of what we learn and adopt as practices is from interacting with the world and through discovering results from... See more