for curiosity...
...all of this can be strangled by a lack of interest. An indifference to learning.
This can be fostered by too much control. Control for the sake of control. Creating a climate in which the need for control is so dominant, or domineering, that curiosity, and the urge to inquire, is squeezed out of one.
Taking the joy out of learning.
You recognize this when students get angry when asked to learn, or when they seem to blank on questions that they should naturally be open to. Ask them a question about "content" and they respond with What do you jean by "content"?
They are not being clever, because they have lost the art of being clever. They have become defensive and shut down their natural inquisitiveness. I say natural inquisitiveness because I think we are all naturally inquisitive, but too often education and educators and our culture discourage and dismantle this natural inquisitiveness. We build barriers to our curiosity. We shut it off, even when and too often when we are in school!
Because school is often built around control. Or controllers. Not learning.
What would happen if we suddenly started educating so that our students could really succeed, beyond our imagination? What would that look like?
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