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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: Wake-up! on July 31, 2017, 08:06:40 PM

Title: Dumbing Us Down
Post by: Wake-up! on July 31, 2017, 08:06:40 PM
Robinson echoes the concerns of many educators who believe that our current forced schooling model erodes children's vibrant creativity and forces them to suppress their self-educative instincts. In his book, Free To Learn, Boston College psychology professor, Dr. Peter Gray, writes:

In the name of education, we have increasingly deprived children of the time and freedom they need to educate themselves through their own means... We have created a world in which children must suppress their natural instincts to take charge of their own education and, instead, mindlessly follow paths to nowhere laid out for them by adults. We have created a world that is literally driving many young people crazy and leaving many others unable to develop the confidence and skills required for adult responsibility.

Read the rest at;  http://www.naturalblaze.com/2017/07/school-kills-creativity.html