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nny'"Well, the travelling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron.
"Yes sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach people reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late... There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will become a past worth having. And I'd like the boys to learn about girls and I'd like the girls to learn about boys. Learning is about finding out who you are, what you are, where you are and what's over the horizon and, well, everything. It's about finding the place where you fit."'
--- Terry Pratchett
I'd start a school, if I could, where people learned how to learn and think and question and argue and find out. It was what I wanted my job to be, and what by all rights it should be.
(It seems the function of governments to just screw things up enough that the other side can't keep to their promises, so busy fixing screw ups that the opposition seems like a better option again - and round and round it goes...)
"Yes sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach people reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late... There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will become a past worth having. And I'd like the boys to learn about girls and I'd like the girls to learn about boys. Learning is about finding out who you are, what you are, where you are and what's over the horizon and, well, everything. It's about finding the place where you fit."'
--- Terry Pratchett
I'd start a school, if I could, where people learned how to learn and think and question and argue and find out. It was what I wanted my job to be, and what by all rights it should be.
(It seems the function of governments to just screw things up enough that the other side can't keep to their promises, so busy fixing screw ups that the opposition seems like a better option again - and round and round it goes...)
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