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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes ...more

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Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.

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The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, orga...more

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Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, somebody'll challenge your mind, ...more

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If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is...more

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The other day I happened to be reading a careful, interesting account of the state of British higher education. The government is a kind of market-ori...more

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Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teac...more

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The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think ...more

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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore...more

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If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivat...more

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Education is a system of imposed ignorance.