““The one that we’re involved with is that kids are natural learners. That’s the paradigm we know is true, and modern brain research reinforces that at every step. But the one that schools operate under almost everywhere is that kids are naturally lazy and need to be forced to learn. What happens over the course of seven or eight years is that this becomes self-fulfilling. If you force kids to learn things they’re not interested in for seven or eight years, after a while you tend to extinguish that natural ability to learn.””
