Critique of the horticultural model of education seen in the discourse of Sir Ken Robinson, Sugata Mitra and the teachers who put the verb "teach" in quotation marks.
Critique of the 21st century pedagogy idea of the teacher as the guide of the side: is this Socrates's teacher-midwife or is it more like the guard of the cave?
Defence of John Locke's idea of the child as an empty vessel (blank slate, tabula rasa, blank sheet of paper), and argument for emptiness (freedom) to be at the core of the curriculum in education