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Education: Evolutionary Touchdowns:
“What society applauds as ‘creative’ has been isolated out of an extraordinary set of coequal evolutionary events, most of which are invisible. Evolutionary ‘touchdowns’ are unpredictable, sometimes centuries apart. Who knows which child is to make the breakthrough? In the next decade society is going to be preoccupied with the child, because through the behavioral sciences and electrical exploration of brain functioning we find that, given the right environment and answers to its questions, the child has everything it needs educationally right from birth. We have thought of education as the mature wisdom and overbrimming knowledge of the grownups injected by the discipline pump into the otherwise ‘empty’ child’s head.”
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- RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 174, May '65
