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Issue de la révolution industrielle, notre éducation est centrée sur la pensée de l’usine, et sa vertu cardinale est la conformité. Pas la créativité, pas le caractère, pas l’amour des savoirs, pas l’épanouissement. Non, la conformité avant toute chose.
Idriss Aberkane • Libérez votre cerveau ! (REPONSES) (French Edition)
Their children don’t go to school at all until they are seven years old—before then, they just play. Between the ages of seven and sixteen, kids arrive at school at 9 a.m. and leave at 2 p.m. They are given almost no homework, and they take almost no tests until they graduate from high school. Free play is at the beating heart of Finnish kids’ live
... See moreJohann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Adler was very critical of education by reward and punishment. It leads to mistaken lifestyles in which people think, If no one is going to praise me, I won’t take appropriate action and If no one is going to punish me, I’ll engage in inappropriate actions, too. You already have the goal of wanting to be praised when you start picking up litter. An
... See moreIchiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
At Sudbury, kids will play, mill around, imitate adults, ask lots of questions, and slowly, over time, they become competent, without being formally instructed very much.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
(The problem of education hinges on this point. If parents were more developed themselves and rested in their own center, the opposition between authoritarian and laissez-faire education would hardly exist. Needing this being-authority, the child reacts to it with great eagerness; on the other hand, the child rebels against pressure or neglect by p
... See moreErich Fromm • To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts)
notre éducation actuelle transforme en ennemis de la société la plupart de ceux qui l'ont reçue, et recrute de nombreux disciples pour les pires formes du socialisme. Ce qui constitue le premier danger de cette éducation très justement qualifiée de latine c'est quelle repose sur cette erreur psychologique fondamentale, que c'est en apprenant par cœ
... See moreGustave Le Bon • Psychologie des Foules
One benefit of knowing the science is a kind of protective skepticism. It should make us deeply suspicious of any enterprise that offers a formula for making babies smarter or teaching them more, from flash cards to Mozart tapes to Better Baby Institutes. Everything we know about babies suggests that these artificial interventions are at best usele
... See moreAlison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
JOHN HOLT author of How Children Fail