Sublime

Mozart labored for more than ten years until he produced any work that we admire

Learners should not be forced to submit to an obligatory curriculum, or to discrimination based on whether they possess a certificate or a diploma. Nor should the public be forced to support, through a regressive taxation, a huge professional apparatus of educators and buildings which in fact restricts the public’s chances for learning to the servi

Dans The Year of Learning Dangerously, Quinn Cummings raconte comment elle a instruit sa fille Alice à la maison : « Avec son père, nous connaissions Alice mieux que personne et nous ne pouvions plus ignorer qu’elle ne faisait pas grand-chose à l’école. Comme l’on dit lorsqu’on est à court d’euphémismes pour parler de “relâchement”, notre fille “n’

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