Oppressed curiosity!

Babies are very curious! First they want to find out if there is anything on earth that tastes better then mother´s breast. So what they do in this phase is they take everything they see and stick it into their mouth - no matter what! This way babies learn how to use their mouth to satisfy their curiosity.

Later children learn to speak and our first instinctive use of language is to ask questions in order to satisfy our curiosity! It´s obvious isn´t it?

Now exactly at this point the machinery starts rolling and the oppression of curiosity begins!

The biggest two influential parts of this system are our families and schools. We´ll only discuss the second one here - Schools.

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"Don´t ask stupid questions!" "Read what´s in your book and be quiet!" "It doesn´t matter why - just do what I´m telling you!" "Learn your material!" "This is off topic!" "We don´t discuss this here!" "Try harder to repeat what I´ve told you!" 
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Does this sound familiar to you? To me it does! I remember pretty good what school was all about - repeating the stupid stuff teachers told me and then simply shut the fuck up!
And do you know why they´re doing this? Simply because teachers learned it the same way AND they learned to feel stupid & uncomfortable if they can´t answer all your questions!!!

I think this is ridiculous! Do you feel stupid if you can´t answer a question? If you do you should stop. Because the only thing on earth that should be able to make you feel stupid is feeling stupid.

See curiosity works different - it´s like fuel for our world´s progress engine.

We have to stop oppressing curiosity and start empower it so the world starts spinning faster and faster. But how can we do this? ( it´s always easy to complain )

I believe we need a system that democratize the way people learn and empowers their curiosity so they can speed up their learning tempo. A school system that let´s everyone choose for their own what they are curious about and gives them access to classes about anything worldwide. A system that doesn´t try to control everything but gives the power to the people. A global education architecture who marks behavior rather then tests. A imperfect system just like the one we have with the little difference that we empower curiosity and creativity without the need of testing and marking what can´t be marked anyway.

A little difference that could change the world - Supercool School.

Much curiosity to you!

Steli Efti, Education Revolutionary