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@NielsHoven Avatar @NielsHoven Niels Hoven 🐮

Niels Hoven 🐮 posts on X about education, guess, if you, products the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social topic influence education #3276, guess #2349, if you, products, bio, ceo, good games, i dont, dot, $7846t

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"It never happened"
X Link 2025-12-12T01:11Z 32.5K followers, 101.2K engagements

"I get called disgusting for wanting to support high-achieving kids But sure its not happening"
X Link 2025-12-12T05:24Z 32.4K followers, 7389 engagements

"Contact infos in my bio Ask for the CEO"
X Link 2025-11-30T15:30Z 32.3K followers, 786.4K engagements

"Why cant people see this blatantly obvious thing is a recurring theme as you dive into education. Phonics should be practiced for 3-12 months so that preschoolers/kindergarteners can read any word they come across Comprehension is then built on that foundation"
X Link 2025-12-06T21:39Z 32.3K followers, 17.3K engagements

"@audrawrongspeak yeah forget Jim Crow laws the actual slave trade was going when calculus was invented We should probably throw that out too"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:20Z 32.3K followers, 1330 engagements

"Video games teach players successfully because they allow players to learn by doing This is not discovery learning. It feels that way to the players but that freedom is an illusion created by the game designer who has anticipated and planned for every possible action the player might take. Good games are more like drilling - they force players to practice the skills theyll need to be successful but in a way that feels fun. Games work well as entertainment but have traditionally fallen flat for education. That's because its difficult to take an academic goal and precisely break it down into"
X Link 2025-12-09T20:47Z 32.2K followers, 22K engagements

"@VivRaper @Insect_Song @xisforgrifters @LizStepan We used to recommend reading eggs I dont like how they teach blending though so we recommend reading dot com now"
X Link 2025-12-10T00:36Z 32.2K followers, XX engagements

"@ImColbyLyons It's the ideology of the field I think education used to care about results I wonder when the shift happened"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:21Z 32.3K followers, XX engagements

"@smarterparrot If shes teaching kindergarten in a tech-friendly school and they have daily access to iPads wed be happy to discuss supporting them as a pilot partner"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:28Z 32.3K followers, XXX engagements

"@LizStepan It makes it difficult to explain why is Mentava better because its not one single thing like phonics Its hundreds of tiny little details that encourage kids to be kids more engaged and more focused and all of that accumulates and adds up to making much faster progress"
X Link 2025-12-11T20:44Z 32.3K followers, 1124 engagements

"@bobbyfijan It is in fact possible to allow struggling students and high achieving students to learn at the same time We dont actually have to choose one or the other"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:05Z 32.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Grift Alert: @MentavaInc just created another 4-year-old word caller"
X Link 2025-12-05T06:03Z 32.3K followers, 19.5K engagements

"@kyle_ferriter "top performing students" "every socioeconomic class" "every child deserves to be challenged" We can't lay out our entire business model but I feel like people should be able to read between the lines here"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:50Z 32.3K followers, XXX engagements

"@BarryPCotter Its linked in this blog post"
X Link 2025-12-11T04:50Z 32.3K followers, XX engagements

"Why so many schools started telling kids to guess at words instead of sounding them out: In the 1960's a woman in New Zealand named Marie Clay thought that good readers read by guessing at whole words from context (the words around them the letter they start with or any pictures). This theory meant teachers wouldn't have to spend time drilling letter sounds so it becomes very popular even though it's completely false. Marie Clay's Reading Recovery program spread across the US in the 1980s and 1990s. Marie Clay becomes an education mini-celebrity. Other programs begin to appear selling these"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:42Z 32.4K followers, 638.5K engagements

"The first Mentava hit piece is out and it's 🔥"
X Link 2025-12-05T00:41Z 32.5K followers, 143.1K engagements

"Anyway if you want to risk phonics turning your kids into "word callers" you can sign up for a free trial at"
X Link 2025-12-05T00:44Z 32.4K followers, 156.1K engagements

"Kids arent computers. They dont read by executing rules. Instead they learn to recognize letter patterns just like they learn to recognize animals. We dont tell them A cow is a farm animal with X legs and horns so they can execute a decision tree. We show kids a picture of a cow and say this is a cow so they start to recognize it. Written English has a lot of patterns that new readers have to learn like the silent e in lake bite home etc. When teaching these patterns the question isnt whats the most parsimonious set of rules we can program into kids' brains for maximum reliability The"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:02Z 32.4K followers, 34.5K engagements

"Heres a protip that is apparently not obvious to everyone: If you are motivated by financial gain do not start a consumer education company Everyone working at Mentava (including me) could be getting paid more doing something else"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:52Z 32.4K followers, 13.8K engagements

"@MattPirkowski I wonder which has done more harm to "children's learning/progression": modern education "best practices" or unapproved educational products"
X Link 2025-12-12T00:02Z 32.4K followers, XXX engagements

"@GarrettPetersen Its always been obvious that words were made up of letter sounds Whats insane is how long the educational establishment has resisted teaching it"
X Link 2025-12-12T21:38Z 32.5K followers, 1474 engagements

"The goal of modern education policy is not helping every kid achieve their potential but rather closing the gap between high achievers and low achievers. Unfortunately this means that many high-achieving students are intentionally slowed down and held back to allow their classmates to catch up. @MentavaInc is building software to ensure high-achieving students can have their learning needs met starting with a software-based tutor that teaches preschoolers to read"
X Link 2024-09-20T23:59Z 32.4K followers, 463.4K engagements

"We have illiterate teenagers because schools tell kids to guess at words instead of sounding them out"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:08Z 32.4K followers, 4.8M engagements

"In the US we teach about silent e or magic e In the UK its taught as a split digraph The UK way is better (so of course we do it that way in Mentava) Heres how it works: Kids already know that i makes the sound in kit Teach them that ie makes the sound in pie Then tell them that the ie still make the same sound even when they get split up: kite Thats the i_e split digraph"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:12Z 32.4K followers, 92.2K engagements

"Why would educators be opposed to teaching kids to sound out words Well the faculty at Minnesota State's college of education object to the "promotion of teaching methods developed . during the Jim Crow era""
X Link 2025-12-08T21:08Z 32.4K followers, 38.6K engagements

"When we tell kids that no one is really evil we rob them of the tools to keep themselves safe"
X Link 2025-12-09T09:33Z 32.4K followers, 651K engagements

"Educations core problem is a culture that treats helping high-performing kids as "disgusting""
X Link 2025-12-09T21:47Z 32.4K followers, 123.4K engagements

"Create expensive education software Option 1: Sell to rich people "That's so unfair you're widening the gap" Option 2: Sell to schools "Stop ripping off taxpayers you grifter" This is why education cant have nice things"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:27Z 32.4K followers, 8163 engagements

""no evidence beyond 'here are some 2yos reading'" is just an incredible accusation to throw at an early literacy company yeah all we've got are videos of kids doing the thing that people told us was impossible"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:07Z 32.4K followers, 32.3K engagements

"For the past XX years education policymakers: 1) couldn't agree whether kids should sound out words 2) insisted that schools prioritize "equalization" over education 3) eliminated accelerated programs to slow down high-achieving students Requiring approval for education products doesn't "protect children's learning" It entrenches harmful ideologies and shields them from outside challenges"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:55Z 32.4K followers, 9500 engagements

"Teacher: education is not about results Teacher: its impossible to simplify the learning process me: look at our result-driven learning simplification"
X Link 2025-11-28T23:01Z 32.4K followers, 179.8K engagements

"@SocietalSafari @joehewitt Its a test we use to get a sense of a childs developmental readiness for reading"
X Link 2025-12-13T16:04Z 32.5K followers, XX engagements

"@Shapps101 @LambDownUnder @MentavaInc Age 3.5-4 is a more typical starting age for us. We only get a few kids who are ready at age X. Blending two letters sounds together is a cognitively advanced skill Heres a test we use to get a sense of developmental readiness"
X Link 2025-12-13T16:09Z 32.4K followers, XX engagements