Sublime

Ron wanted his students to experience the joy of discovery, so he didn’t start by teaching them established knowledge.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

“Do not try to make the brilliant pupil a replica of yourself,” Gilbert Highet wrote in The Art of Teaching. “If you can send him into the world with frames of reference suggested by you and tricks of craftsmanship which he could get only from you, you will have made him your pupil, as much as he will ever be, and earned a right to his permanent gr

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

Ce qui comptait pour Freinet, c’était le « bain de la vie », de l’action, l’apprentissage par la pratique et le projet concret, contre l’idée illusoire, mais commune,