Featured today: The bucket theory of the mind 🪣🧠❌

🪣 How is Karl Popper’s critique of the bucket theory of the mind relevant to the everyday lives of children?

🧠 How and why the bucket theory of the mind school system fails children

👨🏻‍🏫 The bucket theory of the mind implicit in the teacher-directed learning model: direct transmission of information from a teacher to a learner cannot happen

🔦🔭 You can’t pour in a belief in freedom, any more than you can pour in any other ideas. The mind is active, like a searchlight not passive like a bucket

🫗 The mind is not passively receiving criticism like a bucket receives fluid, and knowledge is not like a fluid that can be poured in (even if the person on the receiving end wishes that it could be!)

👩🏻‍🦰 Unnatural consequences revisited

🙅🏼‍♂️ Surely it is cruel to force people to live with the consequences of the ideas and preferences they had when they were children?

📕 Deschooling Society, by Ivan Illich: a book review

👩🏻‍🎓 The dehumanising bucket-theory-of-the-mind argument for not letting children go to school that John Holt liked

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