Category: learning
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School is a drug we force kids to take 180 days a year for 13 years. It is malpractice. What if we tried something that actually works?
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The 50 college majors that guarantee decades of debt and disappointment.
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Financial literacy without real-world money experience is as ineffective as teaching swimming with PowerPoint slides. A critical look at classroom finance education.
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Teaching practical skills isn’t just about handiness. It’s about building better thinkers and students.
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Our efforts to make young people hate reading are working. Maybe we should try this approach?
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I watched the documentary In Search of Greatness which features elite athletes like Wayne Gretzky and Jerry Rice tonight. It’s a quick watch and interesting. Below are my notes/favorite ideas:
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As we build The School of Entrepeneuring, we’ve realized that the fundamental challenge in education today isn’t about content or delivery. It’s about the problems we ask students to solve. The problems aren’t just dull but dangerously irrelevant. The result, as expected, is that we’re boring kids to death helping them hone obsolete skills while…
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I’m going to start this essay with an ask. Please invest 5:57 watching the video below. It’s from 1966. In it, the BBC asked kids what life would be like in 2000. It’s worth it for their responses (and their dope British accents). I’ll see you below after you’ve watched. What struck you? I was…
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The way we teach in our schools has been putting kids to sleep for 1000 years. Peer instruction is a teaching method pioneered by Harvard professor Dr Eric Mazur. It is criminally under appreciated.