Elizabeth Kamara
@elizab333
Elizabeth Kamara
“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
its all part of the process...
Picture of Dorian Grey
Dangerous Minds - Our minds aren’t dangerous unless we question authority or the system.
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace
“The schoolhouse I envision would be very different [from the conventional schools] in this regard. Because I would stress the connections and the continuity among concepts, there would be no brick walls between one “subject” and the next. Since learning would be self-paced and self-motivated, there would be no ticking clock telling students when... See more
Mind Apivessa • mindapi | Mind A | Substack
english class - killing creativity
“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.”
The map is mostly water.
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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english class - killing creativity
“the alienating nature of this widespread education came at the expense of intellectual unity, synthesis and, therefore, understanding.”
“Today [the education system] retains throw-back elements from pre-industrial society. Yet the whole idea of assembling masses of students (raw material) to be processed by teachers (workers) in a centrally located school (factory) was a stroke of industrial genius.” — Alvin Toffler in the Future Shock