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There are only a few ideas that had as much of an impact on education as those of John Dewey. The American philosopher, psychologist and educator believed children to be active contributors and agents of their learning, and not just passive recipients of knowledge of previous generations. He believed that for knowledge to be acquired successfully, learning should be an experience. His Experiential Learning approach was based on four core principles.

The Dunning Kruger effect proposes that people with a little knowledge about a subject tend to view themselves as experts. Upon gaining more knowledge people start under-estimating their mastery realizing how much they don't know. Confidence returns as a person approaches true mastery.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer defined a stupid person has one who blindly follows irrational believes, refusing to entertain alternatives or listen to counter arguments. Thus a stupid person is not necessarily unintelligent but instead immoral. Such people, he said, are impossible to reason with until they are physically liberated and only then may then be receptive liberation of their mind.

In 1964 most people thought that the reason people ended up poor was a matter of biology and had little to do with the environment they grew up in. Urie Bronfenbrenner, a young psychologist, helped us understand that a child's environment also matters. When he was invented to explain his Ecological System Theory to the US congress, he made history.

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him", Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in 1882. To understand what the German philosopher meant; and what he thought of men, morality, and society as a whole, we collaborated with professor Stephen Hicks on this Sprouts special series.

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger", Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote. In this Sprouts special in collaboration with Stephen Hicks, we explore Nietzsche's division of the world into sheep and wolves, and how our morality, what we consider as good and bad, is the result of brute biological events.