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Reflections on education – or is it schooling? 

By Carol Brands 

Fifty years ago when I started school, even twenty five or thirty years ago when many of you started school Educators knew very little about the brain and how it worked. They actually knew very little about learning and how it happened! Teachers worked on the assumption that if you talked and children listened they would learn, if you wrote information on the blackboard all of the children in the room who copied it down would learn that information. And that’s what school was about, vast chunks of information. A catalogue of facts which every child had to learn and then regurgitate at the end of the year and then forget, clearing the space in the brain for the next years set of facts! Many of which are no longer accepted as correct. 

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