Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn: Part 2
Bonus:
Summary: We do education wrong. More nature!
Commentary:
I did not realize how much these flowed from one to another. But I don't really want to do one whole "part" (by his organization) because that's 80+ at a time, and that feels like too much to digest.
4. We teach people to be scholars, not people. To talk about things, not know them.
5. Children know what makes sense.
6. We rush to make kids memorize things they won't use, instead of helping them gain the practical knowledge they have natural interest in.
7. Language is good, but "things" are better.
8. Children would rather make something than memorize.
9. We should study and act according to nature.
10. Follow the pace of nature, and you'll learn at the right pace.
11. The world would no longer be a mystery to us. God set us up to understand nature.
12. People would make better decisions if they studied the world and how it was made.
13. Who would abuse the world if they saw how God is in all of it?
14. Ignorance is what makes us abuse the world.
15. It's a shame we don't have school books about nature written in Latin, so kids could learn both at the same time.
16. Many people in all jobs are ignorant of why they do their jobs. You can only be a master of something if you know both why and how it's done.
17. If man is really the apex of evolution, we only have to know ourselves to know the world. But we are unconcerned with what made us.
Obviously, Penn is very religious. For a lot of these, you can make it work in a more generalized form without religion, but it's pretty hard to twist it out of some. I like the idea of making them more generally applicable, but not overly changing them just to take out God.
Topic List: Ignorance, Education
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