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Learning
‘When children start school, a dramatic change takes place in the ways that we want them to learn. The informal “as and when” learning of life is replaced by curricula, timetables, set lessons, teaching aims, testing and monitoring, because these are deemed necessary for continued satisfactory learning.
Eloise Rickman • Extraordinary Parenting: the essential guide to parenting and educating at home
Thus, this all begs the question, do modern schools actually build knowledge and capacity for all, or do they just reinforce old ideas of how industrial needs are met with a workforce? If schools are, at their fundamental level, designed to create the workers of the future, why are we still teaching siloed skills of the industrial age, when we have... See more
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
A second major illusion on which the school system rests is that most learning is the result of teaching. Teaching, it is true, may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances. But most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society
L’apprentissage désigne le processus d’acquisition de connaissances et compétences nouvelles. Les êtres humains sont dotés d’une extrême curiosité. Dès l’instant où ils naissent, les enfants ont un formidable appétit pour l’apprentissage. Pour un trop grand nombre, il s’émousse avec la scolarité. Si l’on veut transformer l’éducation, il faut mainte
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