Sublime

Jobs also attacked America’s education system, saying that it was hopelessly antiquated and crippled by union work rules. Until the teachers’ unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform. Teachers should be treated as professionals, he said, not as industrial assembly-line workers. Principals should be able to hire and fire the

We don’t let them play freely; we imprison them in their homes, with little to do except interact via screens; and our school system largely deadens and bores them. We feed them food that causes energy crashes, contains drug-like additives that can make them hyper, and doesn’t contain the nutrients they need. We expose them to brain-disrupting chem

School has become the planned process which tools man for a planned world, the principal tool to trap man in man’s trap.

she had noticed that the kids there were being diagnosed as having attention problems at a staggering rate—dramatically higher than in wealthier neighborhoods—and

Selon Peter Gray, il s’agit d’une perte tragique pour nos enfants. Il se situe en cela dans une longue lignée de psychologues, philosophes, anthropologues et enseignants pour lesquels les enfants « par nature, jouent et explorent par eux-mêmes, indépendamment des adultes. Ils ont besoin de liberté pour se développer ; sans quoi ils souffrent. L’ins

Even more worryingly, analysis over time indicated that any immediate benefits which might have accrued from the use of the technique were ultimately lost, and on leaving school those children who were part of a Direct Instruction curriculum were significantly more likely to have been involved in crime, were less well adjusted, and engaged in fewer

I had one traditional teacher, Doug Spitz, but the way I was taught was very nontraditional.