{"id":1402,"date":"2007-12-20T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T18:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/the-mind-is-not-a-vessel-to-be-filled-but-a-fire-to-be-ignited\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T21:08:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T19:08:54","slug":"the-mind-is-not-a-vessel-to-be-filled-but-a-fire-to-be-ignited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/12\/the-mind-is-not-a-vessel-to-be-filled-but-a-fire-to-be-ignited\/","title":{"rendered":"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is one of my favorite quotes by Plutarch. Here is a view from my first exercise-book. On the right page I tried to erase an error that was awarded a small devil<!--more--> (in Oct 1964 by my teacher at Drais Realschule in Karlsruhe).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/p1020826rev2.png\" title='' data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img src='https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/p1020826rev2.png' alt='p1020826rev2.png' \/><\/a><br \/>\nThings have changed when looking now at the exercise books of my children although basic principles remained the same. While I see a lot of advantages of Montessori and Waldorf schools, I have doubts if the longterm outcome is really as good as believed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de\/pisa\/\">PISA<\/a> doesn\u00c2\u00b4t breakdown by school type &#8211; maybe if would be even better to look at personal happiness, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is one of my favorite quotes by Plutarch. Here is a view from my first exercise-book. On the right page I tried to erase an error that was awarded a small devil &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1464,1461,1460,1463,1462],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-favorite_quotes","tag-montessori","tag-pisa","tag-realschule","tag-waldorf_schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}