Drag on Education

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed52.html

Fred Reed is one of my favorite Root Strikers. He hits the essence of education in this linked article, which is only people who wish to be there should be there.

If you are involved in ONRRI - you have to want to be outside, learning by doing. The hoops that we have set up are means of measuring intensity of desire to understand. i wish i had the answers, but the answers that i seek require good data. We cannot recognize the validity of unreferenced opinion.

To grow through education is to learn how to organize thought. Chaos breeds Order - but you have to be able to recognize the pattern, which means you have to look at the data trends. Which means repeating the experiment over and over again in subtly different form. Each teacher ... each class ... one site ... each year ...

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