Education Ideas

Leo Strauss called the exoteric and esoteric modes of writing. Exoteric meaning the surface-level teaching—the part meant for everyone to read and understand. Esoteric meaning the hidden teaching—the deeper meaning intended for the careful reader, tucked between the lines.

the AI revolution will extend the logic of oligopoly into cognition. What appears to be at stake, ultimately, is ownership of the means of thinking. This will have implications for class structure, for the legitimacy of institutions that claim authority based on expertise, and for the credentialing function of universities.

Students should be trained to be more like James Bond and Sherlock Holmes than archivists of dead facts. They must be given adventures, challenges, quests. Send them out into the city on a mission that allows them to generate the right questions rather than come back with the right answers. The adventures must feel risky. They must be rites of... See more

we expect students with different levels of natural talent to succeed in the same system, then blame them when they fail within that system.