learn to forget

Why do children learn new skills much faster than adults? Because they have less to unlearn. We're all familiar with the "learning curve", but what about the "forgetting curve"? - the rate at which we can unlearn those habits, ideas and opinions that lock us in, and close us off to new possibilities and opportunity.

the other side of the same coin

On 11th September 2001, 36,000 children died in the Third World from “structural adjustment” i.e. economic reforms forced on them by the International Monetary Fund, which demanded poor countries privatise their water supplies and withdraw food subsidies. [Source: UNICEF statistics]