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“In humans, culture constitutes patterns of knowledge that are inherited over generations. This includes such …

“In humans, culture constitutes patterns of knowledge that are inherited over generations. This includes such cultural technologies as spoken language, writing, and arithmetic. These technologies, in turn, cannot be learned only by spontaneous imitation and play. The play must somehow be organized and systematized, so that its outcomes of learning will resonate with culture.

Education, then, is the naturally occurring tendency to play, albeit extended into a more systematized realm of culture; it is play connected to a larger whole. Education guides play—sometimes at the expense of oppressing its spontaneous expressions, sometimes by successfully harnessing the will to play and bewondered curiosity we all harbor—and shapes it into culture.

Primary education introduces the playing child into the culture of a civilization. Secondary education bridges the child into adult participation within a larger cultural context. Higher education and research ideally marry the curios child within the adult—still learning—to the farther reaches of civilization’s knowledge; within a few years, after the Masters level, the adult can do their own ground research, producing knowledge hitherto unknown by anyone; expanding upon the realm of culture.

So, the child grows into culture and adulthood, the adult grows as a person and in knowledge and experience, and culture itself grows as a result of the creative spark—the inner child—of adults. But education, all of our studies and experts unanimously agree, risks extinguishing the inner spark, suffocating the natural playfulness of the child. And yet, our economies and our very civilization can only adapt if there are minds and hearts at play, if people and their cultures truly grow. How, then, can education be redefined to better harness play, and thus serve creativity and growth?

In starkly changing environments, growth is a necessary condition not only for thriving and flourishing; it is necessary for survival. Humanity, then, is presented with a seemingly strange conundrum: Play, or perish!”

—Hanzi Freinacht

https://medium.com/@hanzifreinacht/education-for-protopia-why-play-is-vital-to-our-survival-9db8c26f2f71

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Education is Play; Play is Growth; Growth is Survival

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