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“I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.”

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Arno Allan Penzias, born on April 26, 1933, is a renowned physicist. In 1964, along with Robert Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory and had a profound impact on modern cosmology. more

“Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant.”

Source: Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track

“Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.”

Mass Bottom Unschooling

Book:Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

“I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.”

“Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.”

Ifs Trying Belief Security Understood Work Out Uncertainty Islands Backwards Unschooling

Author:Charles Handy

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