english class - killing creativity
Elizabeth Kamara and
english class - killing creativity
Elizabeth Kamara and
Dangerous Minds - Our minds aren’t dangerous unless we question authority or the system.
Why am I not engaging in important work now?
Why am I waiting for this imaginary scenario where aging is cured? Why don't I just engage in important work now? What is my important work?
I am horrified that I will never know what I want and that all my opportunities will pass me by before I can catch them
(9/6/25)
“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.”
Following the Industrial Revolution, a mass education system was introduced to meet the needs of industrial production. Unfortunately, though, the alienating nature of this widespread education came at the expense of intellectual unity, synthesis and, therefore, understanding. The curriculum was designed to produce factory labourers who could read
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