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The Death of Intellectual Curiosity
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
... See morefrom Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
Curiosity cannot be cultivated inside cultures that treat knowledge exclusively as a static object in which engagement with thinking is positioned as the banking of information. Human beings are not savings accounts, they are originators of value creation—one of the key attributes of curiosity.
from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
- I’m pretty set on promoting life-long education as the most important thing. Getting people to be curious, in this time when you can access almost every piece of information in the world, is the best possible thing to do to try to help all humans.It’s crazy how things feel in the absolute opposite direction right now in regards to the internet and ... See more
from Charles Broskoski on self-discovery that happens upon revisiting things you’ve accumulated over time by Laurel Schwulst
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