Sagar Menon

Particularly interesting was Freeman and colleagues’ finding that “active learning confers disproportionate benefits for STEM students from disadvantaged backgrounds and for female students in male-dominated fields.” This suggests there may be a way of addressing a problem with which higher education has been unsuccessfully grappling for years—how... See more

Carl Weiman received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2006. He has devoted much of his attention since to raising the standards of science teaching.

Kids are curious, but the curiosity I mean has a different shape from kid

curiosity. Kid curiosity is broad and shallow; they ask why at

random about everything. In most adults this curiosity dries up

entirely. It has to: you can't get anything done if you're always

asking why about everything. But in ambitious adults, instead of

drying up, curiosity... See more

pedagogy is not content delivery. It is a relational, embodied, and context-rich process. It depends on trust, dialogue, spontaneity, eye contact, missteps, and encouragement. No AI system, no matter how sophisticated, can replicate the chemistry of a teacher who senses a student’s confusion and adapts - not by code, but by care.

We are witnessing a silent, collective decline of attention span, memory, and conceptual depth. And this crisis is now bleeding into education.

“In business, where sins of commission (doing something) tend to be punished much more severely than sins of omission (doing nothing), the status quo holds a particularly strong attraction

When a main path to financial security comes through the algorithmic gods rather than institutional advancement (like when a single viral TikTok can generate more income than a year of professional work) it fundamentally changes how people view everything from education to social structures to political systems that they’re a part of.