Haha, yes! this quote "publish or perish" really captures the pressure in academic life. It's still very real today. Researchers are often expected to constantly publish their work to stay relevant, get funding, and keep their jobs. We can definitely see this in our contemporary academic world, where success is often measured more by output than by impact or quality.

Here one can see that children are not just passively receiving information or knowledge from adults. Instead, they learn by doing, by exploring, asking questions, solving problems, and making sense of things on their own. I can say that children build their own understanding and knowledge based on their experiences, not just by being told what is true. In this sense, i would say knowledge is constructed through curiosity and active exploration

I thought it was interesting to read here how knowledge is constructed through children's everyday experiences with people and objects, as they actively try to understand the world and move through different stages of thinking.

Laboree: History of Education in the US

In the history of Education in the Us, Laboree explores the emergence of public schooling in the United States, driven by religious motivations and later adapted to support the development of nation-states. The narrative captures tensions between the utilitarian goals of education (economic survival) and broader civic aims (democratic participation). Theories like social reproduction and status competition emerge to explain the evolution of schooling and its stratifying effects on society. Based on the reading, I think that the historical lens provided by Laboree aligns with foundational theories of education as a tool for societal organization, while also exposing conflicts between meritocratic ideals and systemic inequities.