Woz in Polish Parliament

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My words in Polish parliament in support of Stiburski petition [link] (translation from Polish):

For 40 years, I have been working on effective methods of learning. I work on how to make people efficiently acquire permanent knowledge of high quality.

My knowledge and experience make me painfully aware of the fundamental problem of the world's education systems. It is forcing children to learn.

The brain has perfect mechanisms of adaptation to the environment, which it uses to acquire knowledge of all sorts.

Compulsory education makes changes to the brain's control systems responsible for the acquisition of knowledge. Those systems underlie intelligence.

Those changes I do not hesitate to name as the injury to the control systems responsible for learning.

Such damage causes difficulties in gaining knowledge, in the development of intelligence, leads to depression, addictions, and underlies the epidemic of suicide in children.

Legislative changes could be summed up in one line of the text: Forcing children to learn is illegal!

I will be very happy to hear questions from the commission, which will reassure me that my dramatic appeal is being heard by Polish parliamentarians

There were no questions. The petition was rejected. Parliamentarians were busy working with their iPhones and iPads.

Many thanks to Marcin Stiburski for a poetic formulation of a petition to free the children from coercive learning methods.

Many thanks to Matti Makuch (aged 16) for the adaptation of our petition to the Human Right Commissioner, and for petitioning for the right of floor for Dr Piotr Wozniak.

Matti's petition was based on the Declaration of Educational Emancipation