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Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring
Hypothesis 1: The "golden age" hypothesisThe "golden age" hypothesis says there are one or more "golden ages" from the past that were superior at producing innovation compared to today. Perhaps understanding and restoring what worked about those "golden ages" would lead to an explosion in creativity today.
Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?
In 1997, historian David Banks argued in “The Problem of Excess Genius” that, “The most important question we can ask of historians is ‘Why are some periods and places so astonishingly more productive than the rest?’"
Packy McCormick • Conjuring Scenius — Packy McCormick
Few people know very much about why schools exist as they do today; the intellectual traditions that have shaped education seem to be invisible to most observers. This is a strange gap in the knowledge of the public. With physics, most informed laypeople could write a coherent sentence or two about Einstein and Newton. For biology, a page might be
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THE CASE FOR @CLUELY: Gen Z chooses to tear down a gatekeeping system rather than reform it.
- Up to one third of students at elite high schools abuse disability policies to unfairly get extra time on exams.
- @WSJ reported a 10th-grader at a private high school estimates that close to half of students claim disability accommodations. "In a math ... See more