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School is Not Enough
what is education for? The purpose of education has held different narratives throughout history. Is it preparing young people to join the contemporary conversation the world is engaged in? Or merely to join the workforce as skilled laborers?
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
In the 1600s, John Amos Comenius, who is often referred to as “the grandfather of modern education” called schools “the slaughterhouse of the mind,” where he saw them devoted primarily to the boring and sometimes brutally-enforced study of Latin by “stuffing and flogging”. He went on to argue for education to follow “the lead of nature. A rational ... See more
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
Research at Bristol University by educational psychologists Shafi and Rose showed that many mature students did not feel that their initial education instilled any excitement or even understanding of education; they had to wait to experience ‘life’ before realising the value of education and consequently returning to it later in life. This clear di
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