Modern education was designed on a Victorian model intended to prepare people for life in an industrial society, emphasizing discipline and fixed schedules (e.g., 9 a.m. school start) to condition children for factory work, rather than fostering creativity.

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Rupert Sheldrake

Evidence Quote

we've got a system of Education which is designed for well basically it follows some kind of Victorian design doesn't it Preparing People For Life in an industrial society and one thing is to make children used to getting up and showing up for school at nine o'clock in the morning and we're fixed hours

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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