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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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The reality is that grades have served their purpose and it’s time to move on if we want actual learning.
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The adult’s primary role is to create an environment supporting the child’s self-construction
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Learner’s environment must support natural development rather than just disseminate knowledge
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Education reform is disconnected from reality. We need more people focused on bypassing the current system.
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There are 4 planes of development (6 years each) with different physical and psychological needs.
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“Equity language” has done nothing to improve education. It is a sophisticated way to derail meaningful conversation.
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Human tendencies is a toolkit humans use to meet their needs by modifying their environment
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A systems theory approach to the interdependence of nature, humanity, and “supranature.”
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Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy and require universities to underwrite loans
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This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F’ing up the status quo and fixing education. Wanted to follow-up on my summary of the excellent and incisive Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz with my 10 favorite quotes from the book. Deresiewicz’s skewering of the Ivy League / elite education is…