Returning to the series on schooling vs. learning - this is the fifth episode of the series that started in episode 024. Having explored the seven hidden lessons of school, and delving into some detail regarding the first two: obedience and apathy, today I explore the third lesson: the lesson of apathy, or indifference, look at how these three lessons combined stifle creativity and growth, not only of individual pupils but of society as a whole, and discuss a possible path back from learnt apathy to regained curiosity.

Source reading:

Montaigne by Virginia Woolf

Autobiographical notes by Albert Einstein

Dumbing us down by John Taylor Gatto

In the realm of hungry ghosts by Gabor Máte

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Presentation and production - Orí Harmelin

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