ready-made knowledge

 

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention

 rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

 ~ Papert

Ready-made knowledge can only be memorized;

 knowledge is not truly our own until we are capable of reproducing

 the given content in a form of our own making. 

Memorizing is but a negative condition; true,

 organic assimilation is impossible without 

inner transformation of what we learn.

All rules for study are summed up in this one: 

learn only in order to create.

~ Schelling

from On University Studies 

with thanks to love is a place

(Seymour Papert, an MIT professor, believed that teachers

 should create conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

 He argued that students should be allowed to learn through

 exploration and discovery, rather than being told what to think.

 Papert's ideas have been influential

 in the development of constructivist learning theory, 

which emphasizes the importance of active learning

 and the construction of knowledge by the learner.)

~ AI generated