¶ Self-education
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Self-education:
"The highest priority of education should be to accommodate humanity’s innate, chromosomically programmed, intellectual appetite for comprehending the interrelationships between all the events of which their senses progressively inform them. Our schools have failed to adequately satisfy those appetites. They have failed to inspire because inspiration springs from realization of the interrelated significances…
"Alternative education provides opportunities for the spontaneous learner to apprehend the whole picture and thus to become a comprehensivist. This is what young people instinctively desire…
“One of the most important events of the education revolution now under way is the discovery that each of us is born comprehensively competent and spontaneously coordinate, quite capable of treating large quantities of data and families of variables from the start. A child spontaneously integrates total information. It craves to understand and be understood… For half a century I have explored self-educating ways for making the world work for everyone. It is exciting to witness groups of dedicated young people… peeling of and investing their time in alternative routes… which hold high promise for them.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Introduction to Guide to Alternative Colleges, 1974
