Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Education should help students find their own path to completion and autonomy.
- In plain terms
- Schools should help students figure out what they need to learn to become whole.
- What can you take from it?
- Support students in finding their own path to self-completion.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does completion mean for a student?
- How do we foster autonomy?
Another view
Structured curricula may be necessary for foundational knowledge before autonomy.
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