Even though paper and pen might seem old fashioned, they still have a strong cognitive effect especially on children compared to their technological alternatives. That doesn’t mean tech-based tools are useless, of course. But when comparisons turn into a strict “this or that” choice, we start drifting away from personal judgment, independent decisions, and the…
In this article, we will discuss Kerem Aydin’s metaphorical expression, ‘educating people with a scoop’. First, we need to establish that control over the individual doesn’t necessarily have to be exerted by a direct authority. The ‘be yourself’ philosophy, promoted by liberalism and, over the last 20 years, by globalism, forcibly fits people into molds….
Since the development of the Internet, education has evolved tremendously alongside it. In my view, the tools of autodidactic minds have grown more powerful while traditional methods of education have weakened even to the point of disappearing. I’m not claiming that this shift has directly produced positive results, but if we look back to the…