@flowidealism Michael Strong

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Social category influence countries 6.87% travel destinations 4.58% social networks 3.05% technology brands 3.05% finance #6061 automotive brands 1.53% celebrities 0.76% cryptocurrencies 0.76% stocks 0.76%

Social topic influence education #3893, in the 11.45%, math #203, history 6.87%, environment #596, culture 5.34%, the most 5.34%, more than #1072, strong #321, real world 3.05%

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Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"I spent a lot of time making something for you. It's now ready. "How to Give Your Child an Expensive Private Education for $250/Month From Home" is now live. After [--] years these are the principles and actionable steps to empower your child with elite private educationaffordably. It went live minutes ago. It's free. Enjoy. https://buff.ly/4g8rMnZ https://buff.ly/4g8rMnZ"
X Link 2025-01-22T19:03Z 23.4K followers, 61.4K engagements

"In Montessori classrooms even young children work independently for [--] hours while some new programs require teachers to interrupt every four minutes for engagement. Long stretches of quiet focus build depth; constant interruption builds distraction"
X Link 2025-11-12T21:06Z 23.4K followers, 25.4K engagements

"@Achristotle It is important to curate the environment keeping garbage out (most internet content) surrounding them with options that will cultivate an interest in the true good and beautiful"
X Link 2026-01-11T21:20Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Dostoyevsky is intense. I read both Crime and Punishment and The Possessed as a teenager. In both cases I remember struggling with all of the Russian names and the scenario set up for [--] pages or so then staying up all night to read the crazy roller coaster of a ride thereafter. Now reading him with teens I find most likewise drawn into his world. Ive got students who are trying to teach themselves Russian in order to read him in Russian. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011437935271244061 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011437935271244061"
X Link 2026-01-14T13:59Z 23.3K followers, [---] engagements

"We cant imagine what American culture would be like if instead of mass compulsory high school from the 50s onwards we had had a small but serious set of academic schools; a rich and diverse set of vocational options (better than Germany); some young people working until they were ready for serious focus of some kind; and specialized programs for entrepreneurial teens creative teens etc. along with mentors apprenticeships etc. Instead of [--] years of adolescent dysfunction and cultural immaturity US culture would be fundamentally different from what it is today. This is 💯 correct. I arrived in"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:43Z 23.2K followers, 24.5K engagements

"Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million to Newark public schools. It was one of the largest philanthropic gifts to a school district in history. Of that $100 million roughly $31 million about 31% had to go to the teachers union as essentially a payment to allow measures that would track teacher performance. Thirty-one percent of a gift meant for children went to the union as the price of being allowed to measure whether teachers were effective. That's not a bug in the system. That's the system working exactly as it's designed to work. Protecting itself from accountability is the primary"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:06Z 23.4K followers, 677K engagements

"MrBeast hated school. At twelve or thirteen he started obsessively optimizing for YouTube success. Not just the creative side but the metrics. He studied what made videos succeed. He ran experiments. He iterated constantly. His parents didn't let him drop out but he basically tuned out of school completely. Now his company is worth over a billion dollars. He has an order of magnitude more followers than the New York Times. He employs hundreds of people. He would have been completely fine dropping out at twelve or thirteen. The school added nothing. The YouTube obsession built everything."
X Link 2026-02-02T18:12Z 23.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Braden one of our students at @socraticexp went from selling hoodies and producing music to leading media and advertising deals at [--] generating over [--] billion views on social media while working with some of the worlds most well-known social media content creators. Watch how his communication and confidence transformed when education supported his ambitions instead of suppressing them"
X Link 2026-02-03T14:44Z 23.3K followers, [----] engagements

"When people who read a lot write well it's because at some point they develop something they actually want to say. They've been absorbing language and structure and style for years through their reading. Then an idea emerges that feels important to them. They need to express it. At that point writing becomes natural. They've got thousands of hours of language patterns embedded in their neural pathways. Developing their own written voice feels organic rather than forced. Extensive reading creates the foundation that makes writing possible"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:52Z 23.4K followers, 83.9K engagements

"In the ancient Greek play Antigone by Sophocles there's a fundamental conflict between different sources of authority. Divine law says you must bury the dead with proper rites. But King Creon has decreed that a traitor's body must be left for vultures. Antigone buries her brother anyway. The chorus goes back and forth uncertain who's right. I see this as depicting the early origins of people learning to think for themselves. Different authorities giving conflicting commands. The individual caught in the middle having to decide. That's when independent judgment becomes necessary."
X Link 2026-02-03T23:37Z 23.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Free Range Parenting is now so iconic it is in advertising. FREE RANGE KIDS IS IN A JEEP AD https://t.co/uz8OuIgcNn Go to [--] seconds in FREE RANGE KIDS IS IN A JEEP AD https://t.co/uz8OuIgcNn Go to [--] seconds in"
X Link 2026-02-04T03:17Z 23.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Socrates was executed by the city of Athens for two charges: corrupting the youth and failing to believe in the gods of the state. The real offense was that young people saw him in the marketplace asking powerful men questions they couldn't answer. He made wealthy and respected citizens look foolish. The young people of Athens started imitating him. They began asking their elders uncomfortable questions. They challenged authority using the same methods they'd seen Socrates use. That imitation was the corruption. Asking questions was the crime that warranted death."
X Link 2026-02-04T16:23Z 23.3K followers, 47.6K engagements

"@stjohnscollege actually avoids providing any context - some of the tutors there regard the ideal as pure encounter with the authors ideas without any predilection to regard the text as an artifact of a particular time place or culture. Now of course I also like to read about historical context and over the years Ive learned a lot about the context of various pieces I read there in a complete historical vacuum. The impulse behind this is to take each authors arguments on their own merits rather than historicizing their thought as merely an expression of a different time and place. The extreme"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:21Z 22.9K followers, [---] engagements

"I put my kids in the supposedly best public school in Broward County Florida. They had previously been in a Montessori school which they loved. They hated this highly-rated public school from the first day. In the second week we went to see the environment. The lunchroom looked almost abusive. We pulled them out immediately. We unschooled them for the rest of that year. I gave my son Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe which is a hilarious and surprisingly detailed comic book history. He read the entire series in two or three days. He learned more actual history content in those"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:59Z 22.9K followers, 106.2K engagements

"What passes for character education in most schools is an absolute joke. They do lessons on grit. Worksheets about perseverance. Posters with inspirational quotes. None of it has any effect whatsoever because that's not how character actually develops. Character develops in real community when someone you respect and care about says: hey don't do that. When norms are enforced through relationships with people who matter to you. You can't teach character through curriculum any more than you can teach love through PowerPoint. It's aliens trying to recreate human socialization through paperwork."
X Link 2026-02-04T23:38Z 23.3K followers, 23.9K engagements

"Maria Montessori is famous worldwide for being child-centered and respecting children's autonomy in learning. But she also understood boundaries. There's a story that once a child in her classroom was being loud and disruptive and abusive. This was in the days of rain barrels. She picked the child up dunked him in the rain barrel and pulled him back out. That might seem extreme today. But he calmed down immediately. Sometimes clear boundaries look surprising. The point isn't to be harsh. The point is to be real about what's needed in the moment"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:43Z 23.4K followers, 79.8K engagements

"In academic research when scholar A publishes a finding and scholar B publishes a contradictory finding they have to figure out why they disagree. Is there a flaw in one methodology Are they measuring different things Is there a logical inconsistency somewhere The search for coherence drives the process. This search for logical consistency and coherence has been the most powerful engine of intellectual progress for thousands of years. Socrates started it. Every serious thinker since then has continued it. The willingness to find and resolve contradictions is what separates real thinking from"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:20Z 23.3K followers, 40.5K engagements

"I find teaching rude. That's a strong statement but I mean it personally. If I'm at a social gathering and somebody walks up to me and starts lecturing about a topic without asking what I think or what I'm interested in I consider that person a bore and a jerk. My eyes immediately look for escape routes. I don't like to be taught. I hate being taught. I read so much faster than anyone can talk to me. For me personally all learning should be consensual. The only time someone should explain something to me is when I've specifically asked for that explanation. Otherwise it's an intrusion"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:40Z 23.3K followers, 56.3K engagements

"People who excel at school often turn out to have no valuable skills in professional contexts. I've known people who were brilliant at academic mathematics could solve any textbook problem elegantly but couldn't apply mathematical thinking to actual situations where it might be useful. The skill stayed compartmentalized. Meanwhile people who struggled academically sometimes have remarkable abilities to build relationships close deals navigate complex social situations and get things done in the real world. Those capabilities matter far more for most careers than academic performance ever did"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:17Z 23.4K followers, 46.5K engagements

"Students in traditional schools often ask me during Socratic discussions: what answer do you want They're so trained to guess what the teacher expects that genuine inquiry seems like a trick. They're looking for the hidden correct answer that I must be steering them toward. I don't want any particular answer. I want you to actually think. Evaluate the evidence yourself. Consider the arguments. Come back with whatever conclusion the evidence supports and be ready to defend it. Then let's have a real conversation about your relationship to that evidence and those arguments"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:35Z 22.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I worked with a young man named Seagram when I was running a school in Alaska. Native American kid. By seventh grade he was six foot two and powerfully built. I asked him what he cared about and he said fighting. After school he would go to the parking lot and beat up other kids. That was his thing. In a traditional Native culture the tribe would have been so proud of this strong powerful young man. He would have been celebrated and given meaningful challenges. Instead he was locked in a room with fluorescent lights controlled by a fearful teacher who kept giving him detentions. Everything"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:02Z 23.1K followers, 50.6K engagements

"I want to reach a point where people feel slightly embarrassed to admit they still send their kids to traditional school. Right now outside of progressive cities like Austin alternative education seems weird and fringe. I want to flip that social dynamic completely around. People will still be polite about it. But I want conventional schooling to be the choice that requires explanation. Why are you doing that to your children when there are so many better options available The social pressure should support innovation not conformity. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020173018635341849"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:29Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"People sometimes criticize homeschooling families for being too protective. They worry about socialization. But I think you should be protective. You should be very intentional about who your kids are around. You don't want them spending hours every day with kids who model behaviors you don't want. The number one predictor of substance abuse among teenagers is having peers who use substances. The number one predictor of violence is having violent peers. The number one predictor of teenage pregnancy is peer norms around sexuality. Conversely peers who code for fun or run small businesses or"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:20Z 23K followers, 16K engagements

"The common assumption is that high-agency education only suits a rare self-motivated few yet historically this was the standard. For most of human history young people shouldered significant responsibility by age [--] long before we constructed the modern concept of adolescence. What we are witnessing today is not a novel experiment but a restoration of an older design. Early adopters recognize this shift first as they do in any transition. The question is no longer whether agency scales but whether we are finally willing to stop suppressing it."
X Link 2026-02-07T22:01Z 22.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I've literally seen adults who let their children walk all over them completely. The parents seem afraid to set any limits at all. The children run the household. At least in some American communities the pendulum has swung too far in that direction. Healthy boundaries include how children are expected to treat adults. Respect should go in both directions. A child who learns they can manipulate and dominate adults is not being well-prepared for life. They're learning patterns that will hurt them later"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:11Z 23.1K followers, [----] engagements

"When I ran a charter school in New Mexico I had to answer to the charter school board the local school district the state department of education and the federal government. All of them had rules. Many of the rules conflicted with each other directly. I spent enormous energy navigating bureaucratic requirements that had nothing to do with student learning. We got dinged on an audit once because we had too many pieces of paper in a single file folder. The auditor wasn't evaluating whether children were learning. The auditor was measuring file folder thickness. That's what bureaucracy cares"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:29Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The Soviet Union was big on Taylorism the efficiency movement that came out of factories in the early 1900s. Stopwatches and time-motion studies. Optimizing every movement. Treating complex work like an assembly line. Germany adopted it. The United States adopted it. Everyone wanted factory efficiency. Factories did become incredibly efficient through these methods. Then we applied the exact same logic to children. Batch them by age. Move them through stations. Ring bells. Track outputs. Human beings are not widgets on an assembly line. This approach was always going to fail at developing"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:07Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements

"I believe there are seven billion geniuses on earth. That sounds outrageous because most people think genius means Einstein or Picasso or someone with an extraordinarily high IQ score. But that's a narrow and impoverished definition. Every single human being has a unique genius. Something they can do better than anyone else on the planet. Some combination of capabilities and perspectives and ways of engaging with reality that belongs only to them. Our job is not to fill them with information. Our job is to help them discover and release what's already there."
X Link 2026-02-08T20:25Z 23.3K followers, 11.8K engagements

"Progress is experimental which means most of it is built on failure. As I discussed with @jposhaughnessy the most successful societies in history were those that protected the unconventional and allowed for trial and error"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:00Z 23.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Im a fan of Liah Greenfelds hypothesis that Anglo-American culture is ground zero of anomie and mental illness growing for the past [---] years or so. Her book Mind Modernity and Madness is a long but fascinating read. Both she and I would put identity formation at the center of a solution but it is too long to write up in a tweet. Ill do a Substa*k on it. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020651785732415641 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020651785732415641"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:11Z 23K followers, [--] engagements

"@eyal_kenigsvain Many real world activities are orthogonal to academic activities. Beyond basic reading writing math most valuable skills are unrelated to academic work itself (though being academically socialized in class norms of socioeconomic elites is tremendously valuable)"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:13Z 23K followers, [--] engagements

"@YeahOkayBoss In traditional societies great warriors and hunter were tremendously valuable. In a caged environment of modernity the manifestation can be problematic. We need more aligned environments"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:02Z 22.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@Inquiringmind53 Depends on the age of course but there are many masculine classics. Jack London is great Mark Twain can be appealing. @grok can you recommend five lists of masculine classics for boys ages 12-15"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:28Z 23K followers, [--] engagements

"Certainly figured such as Franklin Carnegie and Edison who started working at puberty felt it as an obligation yet they were indisputably high agency. Clearly in our culture today the distinction you are making makes sense but as a farm boy who lived among farm boys (and girls) who had to work as an obligation I see the responsibility as supporting considerable agency later on. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020713714391851412 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020713714391851412"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:17Z 23.2K followers, [--] engagements

"I often describe myself as somebody who loves learning and hates school. My mother was a high school dropout. My father was an elevator repairman. The best thing about my childhood education was growing up in Northern Minnesota with long winters and terrible TV reception. We had maybe three fuzzy channels. So I became a reader instead. By sixth grade I was reading 200-page books every night. That reading did more for my education than anything that happened in a classroom. If your child becomes a voracious reader about 80% of the education job is already done. Everything else is details"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:06Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements

"I once took a standardized test for a teacher education program even though I have no formal education training whatsoever. Zero coursework in pedagogy. No teaching credential. I read the book on educational theory the night before the exam. One night of reading. I got the highest score in the state. One night of reading a book. If you read a book understand it and internalize it that's all you need for most things. Performance is what matters. Skills are what matter. The credential tells you someone jumped through hoops. It tells you nothing about what they can actually do"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:12Z 23.3K followers, 17.4K engagements

"When you think about it no part of adult life is organized by birthday. Your workplace has people of all ages. Some are twenty-two some are forty-five some are sixty. You probably don't know most of your colleagues' exact ages. You don't think about it. It's not relevant to anything. Only in school do we sort people by year of birth. Everyone in this room was born in [----]. It's completely artificial and prepares you for nothing in actual adult life. The real world mixes ages constantly. School creates this weird artificial environment that exists nowhere else"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:22Z 23.2K followers, 12.3K engagements

"I believe that over time if we quit forcing so much schooling on people our society would actually come to appreciate learning much more than it does at present. The de facto curriculum for most high school students is that learning is a miserable experience. Everyone should be familiar with Caplans ideas and argument below as capably summarized by @GeneSohoForum : My Essay/Review of The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan @bryan_caplan: Early in my career as a college instructor I adopted a radical grading policy that I felt would be fairer to my students while helping to preserve my own"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:45Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Joseph Lancaster was an eighteen-year-old working-class kid in London around [----]. He figured out a system where older students taught younger students who then taught even younger students. Student teaching student teaching student. He got effective teacher-to-student ratios of one to [---] sometimes one to [---] occasionally one to [----]. This system spread around the world. Brazil India Russia Native American communities on the frontier. It was cheap and it worked and kids learned. Then the rise of professionalized public education in the late 1800s killed it. We replaced something that worked"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:53Z 23.4K followers, 41K engagements

"@ScottRagan Have you not known people who are very good at learning things"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:45Z 23.2K followers, [---] engagements

"The difference is that I see it as possible to help other people become exceptional autodidacts. The schooling system is not focused on developing these skills. If you dont believe it is possible to become a more capable learner so be it. Im grateful to @stjohnscollege for being designed as training in autodidactism-in part through their unique practice of having all faculty teach all subjects. Classes become learning teams because sometimes the tutor (not called a professor) does not know the material themselves. It is shocking to most of the world perhaps unbelievable at a minimum"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:52Z 23.2K followers, [---] engagements

"If you're hoping that students will come up with a particular answer you've already ruined the Socratic process. As soon as you start hoping for a specific outcome you give them tells. They're absolute experts at reading what the teacher wants. They've been doing it for years. I give no tells because I'm honestly and genuinely interested in what they're going to say. I don't know what they'll think. I want to find out. That authentic curiosity is the only way Socratic practice actually works. Fake curiosity produces fake thinking"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:42Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements

"I once did Socratic demonstrations in hundreds of public schools across the country. I would go in lead a discussion with students who had never experienced this before and observe what happened. Very often the straight-A student the kid who was best at school would ask me: I don't know what answer you want. Tell me what you want me to say. They had been trained to figure out the teacher's desired response and give it back. Thinking for themselves had literally never occurred to them as an option. They thought my open questions were some kind of trick."
X Link 2026-02-10T15:03Z 23.4K followers, 61.5K engagements

"We routinely do things to students that we would never tolerate from another adult. If someone walks up to you at a party and starts lecturing you about bitcoin or the history of Venice or anything at all without asking what you think your eyes start looking around the room. Who else can I talk to How do I escape this person We would never accept that socially from a peer. We'd think they were rude and boorish. But we do it to children every day for thirteen years and call it education. The standards are completely different and nobody questions it."
X Link 2026-02-10T16:26Z 23.3K followers, [----] engagements

"I came out of St. John's College loving intellectual dialogue and the great conversation across centuries. The philosopher Mortimer Adler created something called the Paideia Proposal trying to bring that approach to mainstream education. Paideia is an ancient Greek word meaning roughly acculturation or formation. The vision is being inculturated into the highest virtues and deepest ideas of human civilization through thinking and talking about them directly. Not having information transferred into your head by lectures. Actually wrestling with difficult texts and ideas in community with"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:07Z 23.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@ScottRagan @stjohnscollege In my experience in standard public schools most students are bored and disengaged in their required courses (eg math science LA and SS. Looking at external data 75% of high school students are unhappy at school 66% are not engaged learning"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:23Z 23.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@reggie19061 It was a teacher certification exam in AK around [--]. When I called in the day the scores became available the person on the phone (92 was a pre-internet) told me I had gotten the highest score on that administration of the exam"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:40Z 23.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@MSerdikoff Teen entrepreneurs are still dropping out of high school and college sometimes even with technological innovations they have created. Motivated kids can get to a relevant frontier even today"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:59Z 23.2K followers, [---] engagements

"A recurring criticism of inquiry is that it ignores cognitive science. Critics argue that discovery learning leaves students floundering and that foundational skills must be taught explicitly. We take that argument seriously. In math we use adaptive software and one-on-one tutoring to ensure mastery. Students need to know their multiplication facts. Early readers need phonics and decoding. Cognitive load theory matters. When the foundations are missing thinking collapses. However we have also learned that the humanities lose something essential when students are never asked to think for"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:19Z 23K followers, [---] engagements

"@secretfan26 Reed math degree graduate degrees in data science and machine learning"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:22Z 23.2K followers, [---] engagements

"On page [--] of the paper you cite they point out a study where most of the benefits from compulsory education occur in elementary school. Here is background on UK research from GPT Key Research on Minimal or No Substantial Benefits [--]. Clark & Cummins (CEPR Discussion Paper) Compulsory schooling extensions in England & Wales This paper examines the main UK compulsory schooling reforms that raised leaving ages (1919-22 [----] and 1972). It finds that although these reforms increased years of schooling they did not significantly increase adult longevity household income proxies (e.g. house values)"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:31Z 23.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@ScottRagan I also find no effect of expanding compulsory education on individuals literacy skills schooling beyond the primary education level or labor market outcomes from your paper above"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:33Z 23.2K followers, [--] engagements

"Nothing kills a love of learning faster than being forced to answer the same [--] questions for an entire year. Many students learn to "do the minimum" just to survive the boredom of school. But when that same student is given the freedom to follow a creative spark the result is self-directed obsession. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021343670138552781 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021343670138552781"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:01Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Video games are often a coping mechanism rather than a passion. Kids are forced through six hours of meaningless school and then they escape into video games because it's the only place they have any agency. The games respond to their choices. School never does. The real question is what do they actually want to do with their lives. Sometimes passions are suppressed by years of schooling and only come back when the schooling ends. Listen to them. Be genuinely curious about them. Don't just accept that video games are their real interest when games might just be their escape valve."
X Link 2026-02-11T13:39Z 23.4K followers, 52.9K engagements

"Once you set the expectation that children are responsible including letting them fail from time to time as a natural consequence life is much easier as a parent. We stopped waking our kids up for school. [--] kids ages [--] - [--] in [--] different schools. Last week my wife and I woke up and were like "What are we even doing Why are we waking up our kids for school Over and over Oh and why are we still making the [--] year old's lunch" We want https://t.co/QavPs2AUXx We stopped waking our kids up for school. [--] kids ages [--] - [--] in [--] different schools. Last week my wife and I woke up and were like "What"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:31Z 23.4K followers, 15.3K engagements

"People who are very good at school often have no valuable skills in the real world. I've known people who were brilliant at math could solve any textbook problem you gave them but couldn't do anything useful with that ability. They couldn't apply it to actual situations. They couldn't build anything. Meanwhile there are people who struggled in school who can sell who can build relationships who can get things done in complex social environments. Those people succeed. The person who can close a deal creates more value than the person who can ace a test."
X Link 2026-02-11T18:14Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@InvisibleGoril1 @ScarletR611678 Many in the microschool do follow @microschooling for examples. At @socraticexp we target entrepreneurial creative and intellectual students. We have neurodivergent students in all three categories"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:37Z 23.3K followers, [--] engagements

"In the fullness of time we should record a conversation on this. Ive become very interested in the Talmudic inspirations for the @stjohnscollege program that inspired @socraticexp . Something as basic as taking textual exegesis seriously core to both Jewish and some Christian traditions is a sine qua non for learning to read deeply. Postmodern theorists who believe thought is merely a manifestation of various agendas does not seek depth in the sense of seeking truth in a textual interpretation. Your piece on the Talmudic tradition and AI touched on this last month."
X Link 2026-02-11T21:43Z 23.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@greattalkruss Certainly math alongside real world projects would be nice as well but serious reading was certainly more valuable to me than any classroom work"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:56Z 23.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@AuntHat_47 There are different school models with different approaches. Some students may need highly structured environments. With more choice everyone can have a better fit"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:58Z 23.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Right now there's enough educational content available online that in principle anyone can learn virtually anything for free. All of it exists. All of it is accessible. Every university lecture. Every textbook. Every tutorial. Every practice problem. It's all there waiting to be used. I personally feel empowered to learn anything I want anywhere right now. If I need to understand a new field I know I can do it. But most people don't feel this way. They still believe they need a teacher to learn something. That belief itself is the real cage. The locked door is in the mind"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:59Z 23.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@amolitor99 Ive written on these issues; one needs to curate the environment including the human environment and cultural norms to ensure positive outcomes. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2019/07/16/michael-strong/schooling-not-education/ https://www.cato-unbound.org/2019/07/16/michael-strong/schooling-not-education/"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:21Z 23.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@Dividend_Dojo Thank you sadly not surprising"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:22Z 23.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@sindhubiswal Yes math also essential"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:25Z 23.3K followers, [---] engagements

"In a world where all education was truly voluntary instead of coerced by law and social pressure I believe we would have healthier people overall. More social mobility. Better outcomes across the board. The people who wanted to learn would learn more effectively. The people who wanted to work would contribute earlier. I see K-12 education in America as essentially a prison system with nicer architecture. Most students feel like prisoners. They act like prisoners. They watch the clock like prisoners. That dynamic contaminates everything else we try to accomplish in those buildings"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:43Z 23.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. Every parent knows this instinctively. You see your kid pick up habits and attitudes and language from their friends. You see them care more about what their peers think than what you think. The question isn't whether peer influence matters. It obviously matters enormously. The question is whether you're being intentional about it or letting random chance determine who shapes your child. The schoolboys will educate your son either way. You get to choose which schoolboys."
X Link 2026-02-12T15:08Z 23.4K followers, 14K engagements

"One of my tutors at St. John's described the ideal language exam as one where you don't know what language you'll be tested in. Maybe Swahili. Maybe Mandarin. Maybe Polish. You're given a passage and a dictionary and some grammar resources. Figure it out. That's the test. This is exactly what entrepreneurs do every day. New software platform figure it out. New market dynamics figure it out. New regulatory environment figure it out. The skill that matters is learning how to learn anything on demand. School teaches the opposite. School teaches you to wait until someone tells you what to do."
X Link 2026-02-12T16:20Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"SJC founders of the New Program (1937) were Oxford trained and not Jewish. But Jacob Klein a dean and formative presence from the 40s-70s and Eva Brann also a dean and formative presence from the 50s to the 00s were both WW II Jewish refugee scholars with the sort of extraordinary erudition rooted in the Jewish tradition of textual exegesis that shapes how we read texts. Klein was a friend of Leo Strauss though Klein was entirely apolitical. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022061443114320191 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022061443114320191"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:33Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@keanfei47 It is much better to engage them in intellectual dialogue as well ideally add in daily math and real world projects. The point is that as is most public middle school is boring and often a toxic social environment"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:48Z 23.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@FugoCS Ive known many teen boys who reduced or eliminated gaming once they found more valuable ways to engage their energies"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:51Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"Steve Jobs was essentially a salesman who believed in something. He was a little hippie kid in the 1970s messing around with electronics. He got fired from the company he founded in the 1980s. For years he looked like a washed-up failure who had his moment and lost it all. Now Apple is one of the most valuable companies in human history. Jobs had a vision and he never abandoned it even when everyone else did. The conviction to hold onto an idea when circumstances suggest you should give up that's what created the company. Persistence and belief made it real"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:57Z 23.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@DportStudios Sometimes it does. Almost anything can be escapism or a coping mechanism. Ive just worked with teenage boys who have said this explicitly"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:12Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@openworld @aiedge_ Kids are using AI for many useful things including building websites digital marketing lead Gen etc. The ones I see most likely to be trying to use it for creating educational content are 20-somethings who hated the time wasted in school"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:30Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"Most people in business dont need anything beyond middle school math. I do recommend that anyone interested in politics/history/social sciences take AP Statistics in high school getting many non STEM students to take more math. But most adults dont use anything beyond basic middle school math once theyre outside academic institutions. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022092197860954261 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022092197860954261"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:35Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@codybaldwin The more text and the more sophisticated text the better. But certainly some video games may become new forms of literature"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:36Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@SamMacD86958750 @AugustineInUSA Up through middle school math I buy the argument that to be functional in society you need to understand basic financial math - spreadsheet fluency is highly desirable"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:38Z 23.3K followers, [--] engagements

"I did not say that video games were responsible. I said their relationship to video games was the result of a lack of a meaningful environment- in the cases Im talking about the boys had felt bored and disconnected in previous school environments. I blame those schools not the video games. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022374731039608974 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022374731039608974"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:18Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"Endless stories like this. My youngest brother went to first grade and was pulled out midway thru to be homeschooled. He wasnt sitting still kept getting in fights (not the instigator) and was too rambunctious. They wanted my mom to put him on ADHD meds. She said Nope. Hes coming home with me My youngest brother went to first grade and was pulled out midway thru to be homeschooled. He wasnt sitting still kept getting in fights (not the instigator) and was too rambunctious. They wanted my mom to put him on ADHD meds. She said Nope. Hes coming home with me"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:31Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@TheFoolsLair Using ESA funds a microschool could provide these elements during the day including a simple meal"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:38Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@woodc_johnson Even if one believes this was an adequate sorting mechanism for 90% of students I would prefer that the family chooses. Some kids who happen to score less would thrive in high school others who might score well might thrive in other ways"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:05Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"If two-thirds of students are disengaged from learning and three-quarters report being unhappy at school how can anyone argue that's a path to long-term wellbeing The evidence is right there. We cage them for years. They're miserable during those years. And we claim it's good for them. The system fails by its own stated goals. If the purpose is to prepare people for successful lives making them miserable for thirteen years is a strange way to start. Something that feels awful while it's happening can still be worthwhile. But the outcomes would need to justify the suffering. They don't"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:35Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@NeilErian I have a section in this essay on how different Ancient Greek education was https://michaelstrong.substack.com/p/from-iq-fetish-to-virtue-culture https://michaelstrong.substack.com/p/from-iq-fetish-to-virtue-culture"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:17Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@DFTrouble An estimated 20% of colonists owned a copy of Paines Common Sense which many college students would struggle to understand today"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:23Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Im fairly sure that this calculation of ROI does not include opportunity cost. Where you go to college matters less. What you get your degree in matters more. https://t.co/SIp7R8Wk23 Where you go to college matters less. What you get your degree in matters more. https://t.co/SIp7R8Wk23"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:40Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@Kansasprincesss On the Humanities side mostly @stjohnscollege classics. @MathAcademy for math. For electives adult professionals sharing their craft. Montessori elementary. Sign up and you can get a complete document with reading lists"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:44Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"I constantly feel pressures to be like everyone else. Pressures to hold conventional views. Pressures to not say things that might upset people. That's why I deliberately imagine myself as the Korean copilot who sensed the plane was going down or the last person in Asch's experiment who saw the truth clearly. What does it mean to push against that pressure when you feel it The pressure to conform can feel overwhelming in the moment. Everyone else believes X. Everyone else is doing Y. The weight of social reality pushes hard. But reality doesn't care about consensus"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:07Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Paul Johnsons history is amazing. Ive used that book for teaching US history as well. He is such a compelling story teller. I remember reading his account of the US founding when I was in my 40s. Even though Id probably read a hundred different accounts of the founding his version brought me to tears. I love sharing it with students. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022791351813734623 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022791351813734623"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:53Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"Not yet but Ive got a low cost pilot in Senegal with my wife who is Senegalese. We are prototyping a low cost scalable version initially for Africa. But there are many cool low cost scalable options being developed. Check out @rehanallahwala s work in Pakistan or Nobel Explorers for two of my favorites. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022793143574552745 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022793143574552745"
X Link 2026-02-14T22:00Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@charmagh6 No but Socrates engaged in intellectual dialogue freely in the Agora and elsewhere"
X Link 2026-02-14T22:29Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@mikesully97 @C_Hendrick Yes Milton Friedman believed that Hong Kong and Singapore were better models of economic development than was Maos China. When China modeled the SEZs on that model a billion people went from poor to middle class in a few decades"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:32Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"If youre a parent who feels your child deserves more than stress rigid schedules and one-size-fits-all schooling we invite you to experience a real class at The Socratic Experience (K12). Our free Shadow Day lets your child join a live discussion-based class and see if its the right fit. Apply here: https://socraticexperience.com/schedule/ https://socraticexperience.com/schedule/"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:00Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@pintsizeox I discovered Popper after leaving SJC. Poppers Objective Knowledge serves a de facto adequate epistemology for my purposes"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:37Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@Omrausa The discussions bring them to life. @CatherineProj provides public virtual discussions which may be of interest or non degree programs at @stjohnscollege"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:39Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@gyrfalc63587709 I work with high school students every day talk with parents regularly review various curriculum elements regularly (reviewed the content of three AP exams last month) etc"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:28Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@gyrfalc63587709 Glad to hear it. Are they still expected to take high school chemistry"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:47Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"I was reading Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground with a group of 9th graders. One student announced "There is no way someone could actually feel like this on the inside." A classmate replied: "I feel like this every day." The first student was stunned. His understanding of reality shifted in that moment. Literature had done what it's supposed to do: reveal that other people live entirely within different internal worlds"
X Link 2026-01-13T22:11Z 23.4K followers, 1.1M engagements

"Traditional schools often create an environment of false empathy. They tell children to communicate with kindness even when those children are being bullied excluded or manipulated. One parent realized that when every disagreement is immediately sent to a guidance counselor schools actually prevent children from learning to handle conflict themselves. By removing direct age-appropriate confrontation schools also remove the opportunity for students to practice disagreement boundary-setting and repair in real situations. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021705807826665519"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:00Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Lord of the Flies is famous for showing how children's cultures can degenerate into cruelty when there's no adult structure. That's a real risk. It happens in schools all the time. Bullying status games social hierarchies based on nothing good. Children can be vicious to each other. But the flip side is equally true. When you structure a peer culture well it becomes the most powerful developmental force that exists. Kids will push each other in ways they won't accept from adults. They'll hold each other accountable. They'll inspire each other. The key is being intentional about how the"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:16Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Parents should be able to say without apology "No my child is not allowed to do that." If another household allows young children unlimited unsupervised internet access I think it is reasonable to say "My child is not going over there." Children can be exposed to inappropriate content quickly and accidentally. I am not anti-technology. There are great uses for it. There are also real challenges around filters supervision and what is appropriate at different ages. That is precisely why we need open conversation and clearer norms. If you have a sweet innocent eight-year-old you just don't want"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:14Z 23.4K followers, 25K engagements

"Reflection on moral questions and ethical dilemmas is fundamental to the human condition. It's what we do as a species. In traditional societies throughout history young people would sit with elders around fires and hear stories that raised moral questions. They'd listen to adults discuss difficult cases. They were embedded in a culture of ongoing moral reflection. Today most teachers believe they cannot and should not teach anything about morality. It's too controversial. So children get their moral education from wherever they happen to find it. Pornography. 4chan. Random influencers. We've"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:20Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The Stoics and Ive worked with Downs Syndrome people Ive found interesting and generative human beings Seneca in particular speaks explicitly of a sacer intra nos spiritus a sacred spirit within us and sometimes identifies this with a genius. He treats it almost as: an internal moral overseer a fragment of divine reason something that watches your conduct Thats extremely close to both: Socrates daimonion Stoic inner hegemonikon (the ruling faculty) So here genius becomes philosophically elevated. Its no longer just a household cult spirit its interior moral divinity. (GPT prose above)"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:00Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Arguably the most memorable opening sentence. It is time. https://t.co/CnVraz5M3M It is time. https://t.co/CnVraz5M3M"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:21Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"I've known teenagers who figured out the algorithms on Instagram Facebook TikTok and became genuine experts at social media marketing. They can grow accounts. They can drive engagement. They understand what makes content spread. No professor in America can compete with what they know. No curriculum covers this material. No class teaches it. The most valuable digital skills are being learned entirely outside of school by people the school system probably labeled as underperformers. The valuable knowledge has moved outside the institution. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023072123313430831"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:29Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@greg_ashman Yes if and only if they study it again. Most never study most high school STEM content again in their lives. For maybe 1/3 of students standard high school STEM may turn out to be valuable. But probably not for 2/3rds"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:26Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@OliveSquig Spreadsheets have been around since the 1980s basic accounting principles are much older"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:29Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"I knew kids in Palo Alto who at fifteen sixteen seventeen years old were making good money as software developers. Real salaries for real work. Meanwhile a valedictorian in an inner city public school might graduate with absolutely no skills anyone would pay for. Perfect grades zero capabilities. That valedictorian could go to a state college graduate valedictorian there too and still have no skills anyone will pay for. Four more years more perfect grades still nothing valuable. The diploma means nothing. The skills are everything. But school teaches diplomas not skills"
X Link 2026-02-16T13:43Z 23.4K followers, 57.4K engagements

"The top percentile of third graders have the same mathematical ability as the bottom fifty percent of high school seniors. Think about what that means. Those third graders are in school for nine more years. They take math every single year. And they don't improve one percentile relative to where they started. Nine years of math class. Zero progress on the distribution. Those years didn't develop their mathematical ability at all. They just got older. That's not an accident or a failure. That's what the system actually produces. We should stop being surprised by it"
X Link 2026-02-16T21:53Z 23.4K followers, 68.7K engagements

"New York City public schools are approaching $40000 per pupil per year in spending. Do the math on that. If you had a ten-student microschool and got that money directly you'd have $400000 per year to educate ten students. You could rent a beautiful facility and have money left over. You could pay yourself far better than any public school teacher makes. You could have great technology field trips guest speakers whatever you wanted. And you'd still have budget remaining. The question is where all that money actually goes. Most of it never reaches the classroom."
X Link 2026-02-10T23:37Z 23.4K followers, 336.8K engagements

"Most students would be dramatically better off spending the years from age ten to fourteen doing nothing but reading instead of going to school. Nothing else. Just reading whatever interests them following their curiosity going deep on topics that fascinate them. Years of pure voracious reading would develop their minds far better than any traditional curriculum. Forget teaching altogether. Give them books and time and silence. The education would happen automatically through the act of sustained engagement with written thought. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021621061696000339"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:23Z 23.4K followers, 48.8K engagements

"After graduating from one of my schools Cade Summers got a few friends together on a Discord server and they read and discussed Napoleon Hills classic Think and Grow Rich for a few months. Then they http://x.com/i/article/2022003473248878592 http://x.com/i/article/2022003473248878592"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:45Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"A majority of American students began going to high school in the 1930s. A majority started actually graduating from high school in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Look at what happened immediately after: Rebel Without a Cause in [----]. Juvenile delinquents became a cultural phenomenon. The whole troubled teenager trope emerged. This timing is not coincidental. We took young people out of the workforce and caged them in institutions. We gave them nothing meaningful to do. Then we acted surprised when they acted out. The rebellion was a predictable response to the cage."
X Link 2026-02-12T23:40Z 23.4K followers, 70.5K engagements

"At St. John's College we spent four years reading classic texts and discussing them in small groups. Plato Aristotle Shakespeare Newton everyone important. Every week we would encounter ideas that challenged what we thought we knew. Someone once described the experience as having your most sacred beliefs ripped to shreds every week for four years straight. That's exactly what it felt like. And it was wonderful. The more different topics you seriously engage with the harder it becomes to maintain logically consistent beliefs across all of them. That difficulty is where real learning happens."
X Link 2026-02-13T15:11Z 23.4K followers, 24.5K engagements

"I am a big fan of 19th century upbringings. Abraham Lincoln learning to read and think in a log cabin studying the Bible and the Constitution and Shakespeare by firelight. Before mass compulsory schooling became normal it was completely ordinary for people to educate themselves to extraordinary degrees without any institution telling them how. The idea that you need a teacher and a classroom and a curriculum to learn something is a 20th century invention. It's not a law of nature. It's a cultural assumption that we've been trained to accept. But it wasn't true before and it doesn't have to be"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:28Z 23.4K followers, 45.2K engagements

"I hated school history. I think school history textbooks are the most boring meaningless artifacts of education ever created. They're designed by committees to offend no one and inspire no one. They're written at grade level which means they're dumbed down. They're comprehensive which means they're shallow on everything. I'm a voracious reader of history now. I read history for fun. The subject itself is endlessly fascinating. School history is garbage. Real history is wonderful. The institution takes something inherently interesting and makes it unbearable. That's almost an achievement."
X Link 2026-02-13T20:17Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"I once knew a young man who was brilliant at computers. His brain worked in code. But he struggled in traditional school environments. The school asked his parents to put him on Ritalin for attention and antidepressants for his mood. They complied because the authorities recommended it. Once he dropped out he quit all the medications. He was happy. He started a successful career in tech. Looking back the drugs were treating a school problem not a brain problem. His brain was fine. The environment was wrong. Remove the environment and the symptoms disappeared."
X Link 2026-02-14T21:49Z 23.4K followers, 27.3K engagements

"@somefilmstudies @NeilErian No the key difference was a focus on enculturation rather than didactic transmission. See Werner Jagers treatise on the original version or Mortimer Adlers attempt to revive a version of it for the US in the 1980s"
X Link 2026-02-14T22:04Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"When I ran a charter school in New Mexico that became the 36th best public high school in the country I had to answer to the charter school board the local school district the state department of education and the federal government. All with different rules. All with conflicting requirements. At one point we got dinged on our audit because we had too many files in a single file folder. That's the level of bureaucracy we're dealing with. The paperwork requirements have nothing to do with whether kids are learning. They exist to perpetuate themselves."
X Link 2026-02-15T15:11Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Many adults learned calculus in school. Most of them don't remember any of it. It's gone. They spent a year or more on the subject and retained nothing useful. Meanwhile they never learned personal finance or basic business accounting or how to evaluate a contract. The curriculum covered one and ignored the other. The problem isn't that school doesn't teach certain things. The problem is the fundamental approach of forcing people to learn whatever someone else decided is important. Any time you force people to learn something they're less likely to actually absorb it and less likely to ever"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:25Z 23.4K followers, 38K engagements

""We hear just squeals of laughter." Laughter is rarely used as a metric for educational success but it should be. For this family the sound of their daughter enjoying her "office" upstairs is the ultimate proof that she is fully engaged. In a system where everyone must sit silent and listen joy is an outlier. At @socraticexp its the norm. If your child's school day is defined by silence and compliance they are missing out on the vitality of true learning"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:11Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@kmspeaks9 I have students building businesses. They are fascinated by finance"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:30Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"RT @AppWoodHome: As a former public school teacher I can tell you this isnt true. School is primarily babysitting. The extra time is"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:50Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Some people take the idea of children's rights and autonomy too far in the wrong direction. They think respecting children means letting them do whatever they want with no boundaries at all. But two-year-olds are not necessarily mature and kind people yet. They can be completely egocentric. They hit and bite and grab. We want children to be loved and respected. We also need to set healthy boundaries with them. Both things are true at once. Boundaries aren't the opposite of respect. Done right boundaries are an expression of respect"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:06Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"I've hired Olympic-level athletes just because I know that anyone who has the capacity to reach that level can accept serious challenge. They've demonstrated they're willing to work incredibly hard at something difficult. They can handle feedback. They can persist through setbacks. Those qualities transfer. The prior to any academic credential is this: how are you going to push yourself to be amazing What have you accomplished that required real effort and dedication That question matters more than grades. It reveals character that no transcript can show"
X Link 2026-02-16T16:28Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"I'm very interested in evolutionary psychology and how it shapes human behavior. We evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in small tribal groups. Our brains were shaped by that environment. We're wired to submit to authority figures because challenging the chief could get you killed or exiled. We're wired to conform because group cohesion meant survival. Yet all progress comes from people who question conventional thinking and try something different. That tension between our evolutionary programming toward conformity and the human capacity for innovation is permanent. We'll always be"
X Link 2026-02-16T18:12Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Google doesn't care about your credentials. Apple doesn't care about your credentials. Many of the biggest and most successful technology companies have publicly stated that they don't require degrees. They want people who can actually do the work. Can you code Can you solve problems Can you ship products I've known high school dropouts making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year at these companies because they could demonstrate real ability. The degree would have cost them four years and a hundred thousand dollars. The ability was worth infinitely more than the paper"
X Link 2026-02-16T20:22Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Why are we surprised when 10-year-olds discuss Aeschylus and Epictetus Traditional schools "dumb down" the curriculum assuming kids can't handle the Great Books. But as this parent found when you stop treating children like passive bodies in a room they rise to the level of the greatest thinkers in history"
X Link 2026-02-16T22:11Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The school-to-prison pipeline is real but I call it the public-school-to-prison pipeline to be more precise. A huge number of young males are bored out of their minds in school. They're not learning anything. They're disconnected from anything meaningful. So they get in trouble. If we didn't force them into this one-size-fits-all system if they were out working and doing something meaningful at fourteen or fifteen like humans did for most of history millions of lives would turn out differently. The pipeline starts with compulsory attendance laws that make no sense for who they are"
X Link 2026-02-16T23:42Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Those of us who were good at school often have no idea how cruel the system is to those who were not. We experienced school as manageable or even enjoyable so we assume it is fine for everyone. Then we go on to design and support educational systems that inflict daily humiliation on millions of children. I almost have a bad conscience about this. Those of us for whom school was easy often impose these curricula on other students with no awareness that we are causing lifelong damage. Consider students with learning differences. If math is not their strength and they are forced to repeat"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:56Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

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