"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

14 October 2018

Freedom.


You won’t get critical thinkers and independent thinkers by following a rigid curriculum in schools with marks for expected answers. There’s got to be a freedom for teachers to leave the curriculum occasionally and to ask questions for which there isn’t a prescribed answer with a certain number of points allocated to it. They’ve got to take risks and we’ve got to allow children the freedom not to know about things.

Philip Pullman

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