Every once in a while I like to go to the library and go through a bunch of back issues of bunch of random books and magazines.
It’s been some time since I gathered up Utne.
Therein I found a piece called ‘Time to Cut Class: Ditch habits left over from school and free your mind.’ I xeroxed it.
Author Charles Eisenstein, Education Revolution, says we ought to unlearn these 7 habits picked up in school:
- Seeking “credit” for the right answer.
- Seeing problems as having a right answer, and thinking that by articulating the solution, I have solved the problem.
- Seeking external validation for choices, as in “What should I do?” (I can’t just choose, can I? How do I know it’s the right choice? I had better go ask someone.)
- Work: a matter of completing assignments.
- Life: a process of graduating from one externally provided program to the next.
- Status: defined by rank within an institution.
- Personal worth: dependent on external evaluations.
Read the full text of the ‘Utne article ‘ Time to Cut Class: Ditch habits left over from school and free your mind.’
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