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https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto
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In college, I took a class called The Letters of Paul. I took it for two very good reasons:
1. I was (and am) named Paul.
2. The prof, Cal Roetzel, was (and is) cool.
I didn’t figure it was an especially practical course. It was for fun, for the challenge, for the cultural knowledge, for the pleasure of doing it.
WHAT LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IS FOR: A THREAD
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A truly visionary educator from the early 20th century once said:
"The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system."
Although this is not his best known quote on the topic.
Extra kudos if you know who said that without looking it up
@Dasy2k1
Maria Montessori:
“It is necessary that the child teach himself, and then the success is great.”
“The child who has never learned to work by himself, to set goals for his own acts, or to be the master of his own force of will is recognizable in the adult who lets others guide his will and feels a constant need for approval of others.”
@inthehands interesting, not who I was thinking of and who the quote is from. But definitely a contemporary even though he was a couple of decades older
Although the person I'm thinking of while a great educator had very little to do with the school system itself and is more known for non formal education.
He is also a product of his time and said much that is problematic by today's standards. Although he did change significantly post ww1 with respect to colonialism
@inthehands “True peace … suggests the triumph of justice and love among men; it reveals the existence of a better world where harmony reigns.” - Maria Montessori
The matching quote from this person is probably... (see next toot)
@inthehands "The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours."
@Dasy2k1 oh, I found the quote’s author (not knowing it myself) and posted the Montessori as a sort of affirmative answer.