If humanity could accomplish one great thing in education, it would be this.
To maintain the curiosity of childhood throughout life.
When you leave young children to it, they're curious about everything. To the point where you need to keep them out of danger.
They want to learn how things work. How things can fit together. How they can create things. How they can use their imaginations in all sorts of astounding ways.
But by the time children arrive in 4th grade or so, they become less curious.
The way we do school, curiosity isn't rewarded so much as having the correct answers and meeting certain benchmarks.
I believe it comes from a place of fear in the world we live in today. Those in charge believe if we don't have metrics, grades, and consequences early on, then students won't produce.
And they're afraid to let go of that. To imagine what the world would look like if children were left to be curious and creative.
Which is all the more reason that curiosity, creativity, and freedom need to be nurtured as much as possible by our parents and teachers.
Because those are the things that will move humanity forward in the end.
