About this episode
It has been my experience that education is most effective when the prime directive is to do what Maria Montessori proposed in 1946, and that is to help each child discover and then release his or her full potential. The Indian philosopher, Krishnamurti proposed that education’s goal should be to free individuals from the illusion of one’s cultural conditioning so that they can think and value for themselves (Miller, 2001). Thomas Moore (1992), in The Seat of the Soul, recommends that schools strive to develop depth of feeling and imagination, instead of only focusing on knowledge and skills. I agree with each of these, and I would add that our schools should be vehicles for self-actualization. Self-actualization here is the state where one is able to accept and express one’s inner core and begin to actualize those capacities and potentialities found there
Get every episode summarized
Each time The Reading Instruction Show publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from The Reading Instruction Show
Quiet, Piggy: A Trumpian Response to Science of Reading Critics
The Reading Instruction Show
Recognizing Words, the Three-Cueing System, and Identifying Words
The Reading Instruction Show
How NAEP Created a Perpetual Reading Crisis
The Reading Instruction Show
Reading and the Information Processing Model: Why Penguins Continue to Mishear W...
The Reading Instruction Show