Comments on: You’re Only Bored Because You’re Not Learning Anything http://lizpostlethwaite.co.uk/2009/12/15/youre-only-bored-because-youre-not-learning-anything/ Ideas, Creativity, Change. Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:16:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Martin Craig http://lizpostlethwaite.co.uk/2009/12/15/youre-only-bored-because-youre-not-learning-anything/#comment-24 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:27:27 +0000 http://lizpostlethwaite.co.uk/?p=170#comment-24 “School prepares for the alienating institutionalizing of life by teaching the need to be taught.”
“A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and, finally, to furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.”
- Ivan Illich. Deschooling Society. (1971)

]]> By: Brenda Burrell http://lizpostlethwaite.co.uk/2009/12/15/youre-only-bored-because-youre-not-learning-anything/#comment-14 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:06:08 +0000 http://lizpostlethwaite.co.uk/?p=170#comment-14 To turn off the TV is absolutely right. Our culture is so steeped in telly that if you don’t have a set, the incredulity with which you open increasingly surly and threatening letters from the licencing agency is quite staggering. Apparently 40m people *didn’t* watch the XFactor. Hurrah for us!

‘Bored’ did used only to be a feature of young teenagehood, didn’t it? I simply cannot imagine being bored, ever.

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