Kasper Van Der Meulen

“The industrial revolution needed people who could predictably produce results in a standardized way, so the education system provided. Not so long ago, if you wanted to learn anything, you had to go find a building with good books and smart people willing to teach what was in those books. If you were allowed, you had better sit down and shut up and take it as it was in order to have a chance at a future. It was a great system at the time and it really brought us a lot, but the world has changed and now we’re stuck with a rigid and inflexible school system that produces more bricks for a wall that’s no longer being built. A giant amount of human potential is being wasted away in classrooms that are only helpful to those who happen to be the sit-down-take-notes kind of learners. Taking tests that test how good we are at taking tests. Preparing for life instead of living it. Sitting down for six to eight hours a day. Being judged on the ability to conform to a system. A disempowering system that teaches us to always strive for some future state or circumstance to validate our being.”
― Kasper Van Der Meulen, MindLift: Mental Fitness for the Modern Mind