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L-EDUKAZZJONI GĦANDHA SSIB L-AĦJAR FIL-BNIEDEM | Morgan Parnis
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The conversation opens with Morgan making a bold claim: education in Malta is not linear, and the system's insistence on treating it as such is its fundamental failure. He argues that a blank page of experience is the real raw material of learning — and that the current system fills that page with information students memorise and forget rather than skills they can use. He illustrates this with a vivid analogy about learning to cook: the system teaches you to write down a pizza recipe in a textbook rather than to actually make one. The result is graduates who can repeat facts but cannot apply knowledge in the real world. Critical thinking and application, he insists, cannot be developed through rote learning alone.
A blank page of experience is more valuable than a fixed curriculum. Knights College is built on the belief that learning happens through doing, failing, adapting — not through memorising and passing an exam.
Growing up in a household that went through cycles including depression, Morgan learned early to read difficult situations, take responsibility, and find solutions for the people around him. That emotional intelligence became his biggest entrepreneurial asset.
