Thursday, February 27, 2014
breastmilkontherocks: "Children are required to be in school,...
"Children are required to be in school, where their freedom is greatly restricted, far more than most adults would tolerate in their workplaces. In recent decades we’ve been compelling them to spend ever more time in this kind of setting, and there’s strong evidence that this is causing psychological damage to many of them. And as scientists have investigated how children naturally learn, they’ve realized that kids do so most deeply and fully, and with greatest enthusiasm, in conditions that are almost opposite to those of school….
Most people assume that the basic design of today’s schools emerged from scientific evidence about how children learn. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Schools as we know them today are a product of history, not research.
….
Research has shown that people of all ages learn best when they are self-motivated, pursuing answers to questions that reflect their personal interests and achieving goals that they’ve set for themselves. Under such conditions, learning is usually joyful.
The evidence for all of this is obvious to anyone who’s watched a child grow from infancy to school age. Through their own efforts, children figure out how to walk, run, jump, and climb. They learn from scratch their native language, and with that, they learn to assert their will, argue, amuse, annoy, befriend, charm, and ask questions.
….They do all of this before anyone, in any systematic way, tries to teach them anything.
This amazing drive and capacity to learn does not turn itself off when children reach five or six. But we turn it off with our coercive system of schooling.”
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Harry Potter's Character Development
Books 4-7: Fuck, I'm Harry Potter.
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crushcrushcrush0: Married life with Ellen and Portia. I think...
Married life with Ellen and Portia.
I think this is my favorite series of tweets in the whole world
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isenseanunquenchablethirst: is this what responsibilities look...
is this what responsibilities look like
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gearstation: sacredassbutt: baruchsbalthamos: Americans pronouncing it ‘Noo-tella’ as if it were...
Americans pronouncing it ‘Noo-tella’ as if it were made from fucking hazelnoots.
ahem.
#man you just got roasted like a hazelnoot
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humorous-blog: seriousjones: my college allows students to...
my college allows students to print 16 full-color pages per day for free
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justerino: “That day she was amazed to discover that when he...
“That day she was amazed to discover that when he was saying ‘As you wish’, what he meant was ‘I love you’.”
There’s a shortage of perfect films in the world; it’d be a shame if you haven’t seen this one.
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mermaid-grotto: disneyismyescape: hicstreme: hopethefangirl: ...
Elsa, the Pizza Queen
dom-i-nos
dom-i-nos
not pizza hut or papa joe’sdom-i-nos
dom-i-noooos
my pizzas are for the prosi don’t care
what they’re going to pay
let the customers in
cheap tuesdays never bothered me anywayI did not mean for this to go this far….
CRYING
Walt Disney Pictures presents: Baked
ummmm
re-think that title
OMG
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stoned-levi: padalickingood: tokeiudedokei: A silly request...
A silly request from Padalickingood lol
LOOKS LIKE YOU’VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD
yuzu-gi-oh
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danathetimelord:spookstraife:foxinahumancostume:colonel-mustang:j...
danathetimelord:spookstraife:foxinahumancostume:colonel-mustang:jhenne-o-lantern:tragic-french-intimacy:
Please consider a reblog— this could save a life
Human transmutation Circle.
Please reblog, this could save a limb.
or your brother
wont bring back your mom though
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christianmakesjokes: christianmakesjokes: hello yes, I would...
hello yes, I would like to purchase one night stand.
Cmon guys 6 notes are you kidding me this is like the funniest thing that ever happened in my life.
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catsidae: "wow this really tastes like shit""HAHAHAH HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT SHIT TASTES LIKE?"
"wow this really tastes like shit"
"HAHAHAH HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT SHIT TASTES LIKE?"
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smalldoll: coelasquid: Hey kid, what’s going on, want to check out my pit of souls? Yeah, those...
Hey kid, what’s going on, want to check out my pit of souls?
Yeah, those souls sure are way deep down in that pit there huh?
Or… not? Get your hands out of my soul pit.
Okay, I’ll admit that’s apparently some impressive reach…
Like, really impressive reach….
THIS HAS ALWAYS BOTHERED ME BLESS THE OP
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