Hugo Ahlberg

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Doris Lessing once wrote that we should say to children: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not indoctrination. We are sorry, but it’s the best we can do.’ There is one education system that seems to be better than most at inculcating resistance to indoctrination, at least in the early years. Montessori schools, with their collaborative, test-free, mixed-age classrooms and emphasis on self-directed learning, have a remarkable track record in producing entrepreneurs. The founders of Amazon, Wikipedia and Google (both of them) ...more
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
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