Posts tagged education
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates (via acidqueenwho)
(Source: mymainmantho)
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt (via solitaryforager)
(Source: thinksquad)
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Interest can produce learning on a scale to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Stanley Kubrick (via cultureofresistance)
(Source: meansofcorrection)
When we are working for a reward, we do exactly what is necessary to get it and no more.
Not only are we less apt to notice peripheral features of the task, but in performing it we are also less likely to take chances, play with possibilities, follow hunches that might not pay off. Risks are to be avoided whenever possible because the objective is not to engage in an open-ended encounter with ideas; it is simply to get the goody. … when motivated by rewards, “features such as predictability and simplicity are desirable, get through quickly and reach the goal.” More succinctly, “rewards are the enemies of exploration.”
Alfie Kohn
Self - Education
zeitgeistmovement“Passive acceptance of the teacher’s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.”—
Bertrand Russell
