Open minds please: Schools can’t teach children everything but must foster lifelong teaching
Schools can build capacities and dispositions: the stamina to stay with a long text, the ability to hold a view lightly, the pleasure of being surprised, the instinct to ask why and to listen, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.
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“Textbooks said with the calm authority of settled science, that animals lack morality, that only humans make tools, that the world is what our five senses report. Each claim was held by serious, learned people. Each was overturned by accumulation of knowledge: observers who watched for years, experimenters who designed fairer tests, curious minds who faced reality for what it is.”
Anurag Behar is CEO, Azim Premji Foundation.