The proper place and the best place for children to learn whatever they need or want to know is the place where until very recently almost all children learned it – in the world itself, in the mainstream of adult life…We made a terrible mistake when (with the best of intentions) we separated children from […]
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? -Henry David Thoreau
Education is one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. -Bertrand Russell
Human beings are born intelligent. We are by nature question-asking, answer-making problem-solving animals, and we are extremely good at it, above all when we are little. But under certain conditions, which may exist anywhere and certainly exist almost all of the time in almost all schools, we stop using our greatest intellectual powers, stop wanting […]
If your parent or teacher…is sitting in judgement of what you do, and if that judgement will determine whether good things or bad things happen to you, this cannot help but warp your relationship with that person. You will not be working collaboratively in order to learn or grow; you will be trying to get […]