This document discusses child development and education. It notes that the best schools develop students' capacity to act and be curious, as Albert Einstein said he had no special talents but was passionately curious. The document also quotes Maria Montessori saying that caring for children should aim to keep their intelligence burning, not focus on making them learn things.

1. Child’s Play
Melissa Clark-Reynolds
Ice Ideas July 2011

2. Agency - the capacity to act

3. OECD rankings - GNI & GDP

5. International Ed Outcomes

6. Best:Worst schools gap

7. “I have no special
talents. I am only
passionately
curious.”
Albert Einstein

9. "Our care of the child should be governed,
not by the desire to make him learn things,
but by the endeavor always to keep
burning within him that light which is called
intelligence.”
Maria Montessori