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Traditional parents were in the business of handing to their children a settled way of life: values, habits, standards, practices, skills, sometimes a job. On this older picture, it was the role of the parent to give—“tradition” comes from tradere, “to hand over”—and the child to accept, obediently. If I were a traditional parent, I would be trying... See more

Finally, the mark of a good education would shift from what school you attended to which professors you learned from.

-Starting an angel fund, fellowship, or grant program to support people or ideas you like

While some of these organizations may have started with purely financial motivations, I suspect that most of their founders aspire to build communities that can replace some of the social capital that America’s waning institutions once provided.

making hard things seem fun is a much better strategy than making hard things seem important