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As Kelly Gallagher stated in Readicide: “The standard instructional practices used in most schools are killing reading by much of what they VALUE and do.” Standard instructional school and university practices beyond reading often cause mindicide. About these practices Einstein said: "Is it any wonder that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry, for this delicate little plant, besides stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom."
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Pritscher, C.P. (2013). Mindicide. In: Pritscher, C.P. (eds) Learning What to Ignore. Transgressions, vol 93. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-119-1_2
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