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Lies We Tell Kids
Should we be shocked that people believe irrational things? Not really. We bombard children with information before we teach them how to think critically. It’s a daily mass murder of malleable mindsets.
Riva • Why Our Belief Systems Create Misperceptions- Published in The European, Nov 2014
I was the kind of kid who never stopped asking annoying “why?” questions. And I was lousy at learning facts by rote in school. I had to understand how the facts fit together in order to remember them. Unless a method made sense , I couldn’t use it to save my life. When taught a skill without explanation, I would complain “but it doesn’t get you any... See more
Principles and functions | Vividness
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known only in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
In fact, it’s a very easy way to jump into a box. When you’ve lied about something, your actions are restricted by the need to maintain the fiction you’ve created. You can no longer react freely and spontaneously to new developments; you always have to keep your guard up to avoid doing anything that might reveal your previous acts. Ironically, I th
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