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Children are naturally curious. They want to know how things work, what things mean, why things are. Any parent can testify to the barrage of questions young children ask, sometimes incessantly. Schooling disengages a child’s natural curiosity about the world by ignoring his interests and questions, placing knowledge into buckets, and then forcing him to learn what is in those buckets. Schooling and learning are strikingly different.

Quote ID: 02892

Author

Kerry McDonald

Source

Unschooled

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