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# The Ignorant Schoolmaster
- URL: https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-the-ignorant-schoolmaster/
- Published: 2026-08-09T14:50:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-11T13:00:11.000Z
- Description: Jacques Rancière, 1991
- Author: Frank Burridge
- Tags: #book, Green School BiRD Lab

Jacotot taught students he shared no language with, and they learned; Rancière's conclusion is that explication is what makes students dependent. All intelligences are equal; what differs is attention and will. The pedagogical licence for metabolic architecture: a legible building poses problems without a teacher explaining them away.

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