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Children are naturally curious and I would argue that our education system destroys this curiosity and replaces it with anxiety about performance

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Hlonipha Mokoena is a South African historian at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a specialist in South African intellectual history. She formerly worked in the anthropology department at Columbia University. She received her PhD from the University of Cape Town in 2005.

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