School is Not Enough - by Simon Sarris
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Learning is a consequence of doing
This is post may sound familiar: it is based on a 2021 post titled The Most Precious Resource is Agency. A rewrite with recommendations for children and parents was published in Palladium Magazine under this title. I am preserving it here too. Drawing Lesson, Abraham van Strij, 1800 When I read biographies, early lives leap out the most. Leonardo da Vinci was a studio apprentice to Verrocchio at 14 years old. Walt Disney took on a number of jobs, chiefly delivering papers, by 11. Vladimir Nabokov published his first poetry collection at 16, while still in school. Andrew Carnegie finished…
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