Tormented regularly by this passage from Holt's How Children Fail: "This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties…usually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we treat children long enough as if that were true, they will come to believe it is true."
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I'm sure I'm seeing a sliver of the tip of the iceberg here, but what's the alternative? Letting children choose? They'll choose Netflix and ice cream 24/7 😅
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Dewey's got a great criticism of absolute "unschools" per your concerns in "Experience and Education" that's really stuck with me.
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Yuppp love it. Matches the ides of minds and bodies not being a tabula rasa, but having desires and habits which need to be variously fostered, tempered, tweaked, explained, harnessed.
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