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Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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Some things I believe about the education system:
1. Parents say they care about learning, but credentials are really what they value.
2. Education should feel more like a video game than a movie. The current system forces kids to sit back and listen. Better to gamify the experience and... See more
David Perellx.com
After 25 years of solitude, the most influential tech billionaire you've never heard of broke his silence to talk to @JeremySternLA about what he calls “the single best product I’ve ever built, in four decades, by far.”
Colossus can report for the first time that Trilogy founder Joe Liemandt is the product guy behind... See more
JOHN HOLT author of How Children Fail
Connie Dawson • Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
The difference between schools and libraries
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):
To begin with, libraries are usually comfortable, clean, and quiet. They are orderly places where you can actually read instead of just pretending to read.... See more
For some reason libraries are never age-segregated, nor do