Charles Martineau

While read­ing Unended Quest: An Intel­lec­tual Auto­bi­og­ra­phy by Karl R. Pop­per, I found a superb quote on Popper’s dream of future education.

If I thought of a future, I dreamt of one day found­ing a school in which young peo­ple could learn with­out bore­dom, and would be stim­u­lated to pose prob­lems and dis­cuss them; a school in which no unwanted answers to unasked ques­tions would have to be lis­tened to; in which one did not study for the sake of pass­ing examinations.

Pop­per had this in mind in the 1920s. Still in 2010, almost 2011, schools are excel­lent at destroy­ing cre­ativ­ity. Pop­per would be really mad at stan­dard­ize exams like SAT, GMAT, LSAT, and all that crap