Curiosity (Ep.51)

Today, when we think of the words education, learning and children, we also immediately think of schooling. In other words, we think of education as something done to children by adults. 

As the education researcher Peter Gray put it, 

“Today, in the minds of most people, the onus for education lies with adults, who have the responsibility to make children acquire certain aspects of the culture, whether or not the children want to acquire them. But throughout human history, the real onus for education has always lain with children themselves, and it still does today. Just as children come into the world with instinctive drives to eat and drink what they must to survive, they come into the world with instinctive drives to educate themselves - to learn what they must to become effective members of the culture around them and thereby to survive. Those instinctive drives, broadly construed, are curiosity, playfulness, and sociability.”

Episode 50! Woohoo. Thanks to all my listeners :-)

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