The Washington Post – Valerie Strauss (Marion Brady)
“Back in the 1960s…I concluded that mental organization is the key to productive, creative thought…what K-12 kids really need is a system for organizing GENERAL knowledge. They HAVE such a system. But they don’t know they have it, so for educational purposes, it isn’t doing them any good. It has to be lifted into consciousness, elaborated, and put to intentional use to help them make better sense of themselves, each other, and the world. (And, of course, school subjects.)” (more)