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Learning
we can depend on self-motivated learning instead of employing teachers to bribe or compel the student to find the time and the will to learn; that we can provide the learner with new links to the world instead of continuing to funnel all educational programs through the teacher.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
When schooling begins early, it can transform lives: numerous experiments show that children from disadvantaged backgrounds who benefit from early educational interventions show improved outcomes, even decades later, in many domains—from lower crime rates to higher IQs and incomes to better health.51 But schooling is
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten*
web.media.mit.eduPure discovery learning, the idea that children can teach themselves, is one of many educational myths that have been debunked but still remain curiously popular.