Berliner, Wendy. “’Schools Are Killing Curiosity’: Why We Need to Stop Telling Children to Shut up and Learn.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 28 Jan. 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/28/schools-killing-curiosity-learn.
In the text “’Schools Are Killing Curiosity’: Why We Need to Stop Telling Children to Shut up and Learn.”, Wendy Berliner emphasizes the importance of promoting curiosity in young students. The author supports this by referring to a research study by University of Michigan CS Mott Children’s Hospital and the Center for Human Growth and Development. Results suggested that performance in school is related to curiosity. Afterwards, the article continues by examining whether schools dicourage asking questions. Lastly, the text cites a nursery that changes it’s toys to promote creativity. The conclusion states that “humans learn from novel situations and curiosity is important to that process.”
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