It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel

Re:It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel by dorkwood on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:31AM (#27482744)

I still resent my parents for not keeping any books in the house apart from the dictionary. I can't remember how many times I flipped through the dictionary out of boredom growing up. Whenever I'd go to my grandmother's place, I loved to take random books off the book shelf and read through them.

I honestly feel like a great way to educate kids is not to teach them anything directly at all, but to instead leave lots of material around for them to discover themselves.

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Re:It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel by xattt on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:24AM (#27483679)

This is essentially the Montessori method of teaching, which is why families with higher incomes make such a fuss about them.

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Re:It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel by spacechild1 on Saturday June 12, 2021 @11:51AM (#27485259)

My father had a big book shelf in his office room in our house which spanned two of the walls. As a kid I loved to browse the shelf and pick up different kinds of literature. I remember reading Jules Verne's “Journey to the Center of the Earth“ around the age of 10 and although it was a rather tough read, I was blown away.

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