The Natural Learner

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Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

— Emma Goldman

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Control is always so seductive, at least to the "developed" ("civilized") mind. It seems so satisfying, so efficient, so effective, so potent. In the short run, in some ways, it is. But it creates a thousand kinds of blowback, from depressed rebellious children to storms surging over our coastlines to guns and bombs exploding in cities around the world. — Carol Black

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"Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow."

— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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"Discipline must come through liberty...We do not consider an individual disciplined when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.”

— educational innovator and entrepreneur Maria Montessori (1870-1952).

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How We Deprive Children of the Physical Activity They Need

Monitoring, structuring, and protecting reduce children’s activity and health.

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Can I Learn Data Science on My Own? A Comprehensive Guide - The Enlightened Mindset

Learn how to become a data scientist by teaching yourself, including the prerequisites and resources needed, as well as strategies for makin

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"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."

— Confucius

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"Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools… They are the men who defy what school has taught them."

— Ludwig von Mises

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Straight A students may not be the best innovators

Researchers surveyed college students to find out what was influencing student motivation. They found good relationships with faculty make a big difference, but not good grades.