Teach This to Your Kids
If you had a chance to teach us, what would we learn? If you had a chance to learn, what would you like to be taught?
Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See
See, you only really learn when you’re surprised — when your previous idea of something was wrong.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
On Education and Teaching Kids “Sooner or later, parents have to take responsibility for putting their kids into a system that is indebting them and teaching them to be cogs in an economy that doesn’t want cogs anymore. Parents get to decide . . . [and] from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., those kids are getting homeschooled. And they’re either getting home-sch
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
no one had really seen what was unusual about schools, at least from the point of view of the pandemic strategist. It had taken the Glasses’ model to point it out. Why? Carter wondered. Why hadn’t they seen it? Then it struck him. They saw it all with adult eyes. They forgot the world that their kids live in, and that they once lived in. Adults ima
... See moreMichael Lewis • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
I take the counsel of researcher danah boyd, who warned that when we teach our children to be suspicious of everything they see, “we ask students to challenge their sacred cows but don’t give them a new framework through which to make sense of the world; others are often there to do it for us.”