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Our job in higher ed isn’t to identify a top 1 percent of people who are freakishly remarkable or who have rich parents, and turn them into a super class of billionaires. It’s to give the bottom 90 a chance to be in the top 10.
—Scott Galloway
Fryer is the leading researcher in this field, at least in the short term impact of these programs.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Education economist Greg Duncan,
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“There is something very odd about a society where the most talented people get all tracked toward the same elite colleges, where they end up studying the same small number of subjects and going into the same small number of careers… It’s very limiting for our society as well as for those students.”
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Social Conservatism for the Common Good: A Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George
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Opinion | The Character-Building Tool Kit
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Recent debates on X have , among other things, brought forth the purported underachievement attitude of the American education and children's upbringing. I have voiced my serious reservations regarding that point, to put it mildly.
Many of my own ideas on this matter have been heavily influenced by @DavidEpstein's book... See more
I believe that good teachers introduce new thoughts, but great teachers introduce new ways of thinking.