{"id":91867,"date":"2026-04-23T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=91867"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:58:58","slug":"the-world-needs-an-education-system-designed-for-dreamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/23\/the-world-needs-an-education-system-designed-for-dreamers\/","title":{"rendered":"The world needs an education system designed for dreamers.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this quote, which was attributed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Szent-Gy%C3%B6rgyi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albert Szent-Gyorgyi<\/a>, a Nobel laureate biochemist.\u00a0I have also seen it attributed to Einstein.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The basic texture of research consists of dreams into which the threads of reasoning, measurement, and calculation are woven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why does the attribution not matter, but the idea does?<\/p>\n<p>That is because it makes clear that, when undertaking research, dreams come first.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that we now have a neoliberal education system designed to ensure that dreams are crushed in those at school, as compliance is demanded. What hope then is there for the advancement of ideas or research when the only supposed motive for it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yj796plqmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what the Pope recently called<\/a> \"an idolatrous thirst for profit\"?<\/p>\n<p>The world desperately needs an education system designed for dreamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this quote, which was attributed to\u00a0Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, a Nobel laureate biochemist.\u00a0I have also seen it attributed to Einstein. The basic texture of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/23\/the-world-needs-an-education-system-designed-for-dreamers\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16,224,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics","category-neoliberalism","category-politics-for-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91871,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91867\/revisions\/91871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}