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In order to efficiently jam as much testable data into each generation of kids, we push to make those children compliant, competitive zombies.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
As children, few of us are taught to understand and prioritize our feelings. For the most part, the educational system doesn’t ask us to access our sensitivity, but to be obedient. To do what is expected. Our natural independent spirit is tamed. Free thought is constrained. There is a set of rules and expectations put upon us that is not about
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
In his revolutionary work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, published in 1970, Paulo Freire describes what is still the dominant model of teaching today. In this model, students are viewed as empty “bank accounts” to be filled with knowledge by teachers — not as participants who have a say in what and how they learn. This model is not designed to enable
... See moreJoanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Erik Hoel • Why We Stopped Making Einsteins
Enter the Swiss political philosopher and polymath Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who shocked the world with Émile: or On Education ([1762] 1993). Émile is the eponymous pupil-hero of Rousseau’s treatise on child-rearing and education; his book contains passages such as this: Instead of keeping [Émile] mewed up in a stuffy room, take him out into a meadow
... See moreGary Thomas • Education: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
This behaviorist ascendancy launched a process by which we in the United States changed nearly every aspect of how we manage human affairs and, as a result, we became modern. We transformed ourselves from producers to consumers, from citizens to taxpayers, and from self-reliance to a dependence on external, verifiable authority.
Carol Sanford • No More Gold Stars: Regenerating Capacity to Think for Ourselves
