{"id":171233,"date":"2023-09-03T22:47:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T03:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/how-to-be-more-alive-hermann-hesse-on-wonder-and-the-proper-aim-of-education"},"modified":"2023-09-03T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T03:47:19","slug":"how-to-be-more-alive-hermann-hesse-on-wonder-and-the-proper-aim-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/how-to-be-more-alive-hermann-hesse-on-wonder-and-the-proper-aim-of-education","title":{"rendered":"How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-be-more-alive-hermann-hesse-on-wonder-and-the-proper-aim-of-education2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To flourish, one must retain wonder throughout life. Formal education often beats wonder out of us by teaching us that learning is a chore. But learning and experiencing wonder, these represent among the greatest gifts life has to offer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cWhile wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To flourish, one must retain wonder throughout life. Formal education often beats wonder out of us by teaching us that learning is a chore. But learning and experiencing wonder, these represent among the greatest gifts life has to offer. \u201cWhile wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}