#  @flowidealism Michael Strong Michael Strong posts on X about education, math, in the, the most the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::29804238/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -39% - [--] Month [---------] -1.10% - [--] Months [---------] +2,154% - [--] Year [---------] +876% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::29804238/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -15% - [--] Month [---] +78% - [--] Months [---] +278% - [--] Year [---] +158% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::29804238/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +2.10% - [--] Month [------] +9.20% - [--] Months [------] +45% - [--] Year [------] +63% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::29804238/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [gaming](/list/gaming) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [stocks](/list/stocks) **Social topic influence** [education](/topic/education) #4250, [math](/topic/math) #2667, [in the](/topic/in-the), [the most](/topic/the-most), [public](/topic/public), [if you](/topic/if-you), [culture](/topic/culture), [books](/topic/books), [environment](/topic/environment) #1322, [history](/topic/history) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@socraticexp](/creator/undefined) [@magattew](/creator/undefined) [@eduwonkettejen](/creator/undefined) [@stjohnscollege](/creator/undefined) [@scottragan](/creator/undefined) [@flowidealism](/creator/undefined) [@t2meg](/creator/undefined) [@joshcowenmsu](/creator/undefined) [@denisacasement](/creator/undefined) [@adonicass](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@prosperaglobal](/creator/undefined) [@sammacd86958750](/creator/undefined) [@hippymomphd](/creator/undefined) [@jonhaidt](/creator/undefined) [@genesohoforum](/creator/undefined) [@strollerno](/creator/undefined) [@inquiringmind53](/creator/undefined) [@jmilei](/creator/undefined) [@1517fund](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Flex Ltd. Ordinary Shares (FLEX)](/topic/$flex) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Ive seen so many people excited about innovating in education w/o awareness of these obstacles. From an innovators perspective most of k12 is such garbage that it seems like an obvious market to disrupt. And yes at some point it will happen. But these obstacles are real" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1674561805853552641) 2023-06-29T23:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Good thread on obstacles to innovating in education. At small scale it is easy to produce much better results than standard k12 - most time is wasted in school + many of us have learned X at 5x 10x 50x etc. relative to school learning. Scale is tough alignment critical" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1674563308093939715) 2023-06-29T23:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "We reflect on her writing process the extent to which she plans or not the extent to which she thinks about her writing when she is not writing etc. Another example of how we can "love a mind" by giving her thoughts our attention and respect" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1678063170181529601) 2023-07-10T04:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Follow @1517fund to learn about amazing teens and to be inspired by what teens can do today - and they are also a VC fund that invests in teen entrepreneurs. Follow and share w motivated teens who are done with conventional schooling. There is a better way forward for teens" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1685666231821447168) 2023-07-30T14:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The homeschool market is rapidly becoming more sophisticated with diverse learning pods a la carte offerings (@socraticexp offers a la carte offerings for homeschoolers) microschools developed tutoring markets cool materials etc. It is no longer isolated individuals" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1687600881858940928) 2023-08-04T23:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Given how easy it is to get people to love learning when it is voluntary I expect compulsory schooling has reduced the extent to which our population is educated. If listening to music or watching video chosen by government was mandatory for [--] years people would hate it" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1689465539268096000) 2023-08-10T02:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Many famous people hated school - for those who are curious it is excruciatingly painful to have someone else control your attention [--] hours/day. When I reflect on the intellectual adventures I have every day the thought of sitting thru school is torture - the reality worse" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1690495056434589696) 2023-08-12T22:46Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements "I keep wondering when parents will wake up to the fact that standard schooling is a significant risk factor for self-harm" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1691806052780490841) 2023-08-16T13:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Instead of school - [--] hrs/day of engaging convos on wide range of topics + cool digital skill electives entrepreneurial + creative projects personalized math w tutors + 1:1 mentoring. No lectures no memorizing no tests except [--] self-paced math tests or opt in trad courses" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1694060193057755631) 2023-08-22T18:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@_EnrichedHQ Read below. Schooling is an inhumane experience for most adolescents that leads to or exacerbates the mental health crisis. Meanwhile it does so while forcing kids to do mostly useless activities. Read @educatedandfree for more on the fraudulent aspect" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1695794836979232931) 2023-08-27T13:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Ive been working with entrepreneurial teens for decades. The Thiel Fellowship is tremendous validation for the fact that teens dont need to wait for schooling to be over to create a meaningful life. When teens are engaged in meaningful work they are healthier + happier. 1/3" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1698861717608907207) 2023-09-05T00:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Diego talked his way into an internship w the architect at @ProsperaGlobal . @socraticexp was able to give him a semester of high school credit for the internship which was an amazing experience. He is now back with us having a blast designing an education that works [--] him" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1699146258655383811) 2023-09-05T19:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Middle school is a crucial period. Many happy optimistic children become depressed alienated miserable teens. Parents should do whatever it takes to prevent their children from going down hill in middle school. Pull them out of a toxic enviro before the damage is permanent" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1699542677946093598) 2023-09-06T21:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Serjhunt_ARK @joaolmateus @zeldapoem this is how we need to think about blasting education based on cultures of student agency and autodidactism into the stratosphere" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1699815189338575254) 2023-09-07T16:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@JessieTweeting In 19th century Britain liberal arts Ed was norm before guv schooling took over: Arnolds Rugby school: The Socratic Method promoted in his school challenged students to think critically about the questions asked a method which opposed rote learning" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1700559633386021273) 2023-09-09T17:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@EdHerdman @AgnesCallard Immensely. Most academics are unaware that Africa is most heavily regulated region on earth and that the lack of a decent business environment is why they are poor. Mauritius + Rwanda increased economic freedom now former is middle income latter is growing rapidly. @magattew" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1703534300497424716) 2023-09-17T22:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Diego went to @ProsperaGlobal where he talked himself into an internship with their chief architect. He learned professional software tools and worked on real world projects while spending part of the year on the beautiful Caribbean island of Roatan. Now going to college early" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1709962957067571260) 2023-10-05T16:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@diwan_vinod @DinaPomeranz @OlaRosling Rosling was a fabulous advocate for this information for sure. But his Ignorance Project documented just how stunningly ignorant people are about these basic facts. Here in [----] only 12% of college graduates were aware of the dramatic decline in poverty" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1709984964454809886) 2023-10-05T17:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@diwan_vinod @DinaPomeranz @OlaRosling Very sad if it is European psyche that thinks that way. In US I attribute it more to anti-capitalist academics. I would not be surprised if professors outside econ were even more ignorant- there are still Marxists who believe rich get richer poor get poorer under capitalism" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1710009032411431118) 2023-10-05T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@shenandoah on his technique for unschooling- see link below in an interview. Daughter Laura got into MIT at [--] w no conventional schooling at all now is a leading anti-aging VC in her 20s" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1710023005915517301) 2023-10-05T20:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I completely agree with this- and very few trad school experiences can compete with the value of reading. My simple homeschooling recipe for grades 4-7: 30-60 minutes of math daily plus 3-6 hours of reading. A student who is an avid reader has an immense advantage over others" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1710362338048483772) 2023-10-06T18:32Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements "Even in the 1990s when I was working in public school classrooms outside the honors track the dominant vibe was of deep malaise boredom and disengagement in most high school classes. It has only gotten worse. Check out YouTube for school sucks to hear their voices" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1711795740446519669) 2023-10-10T17:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@DylanWu Agreed. Id really like to see a larger social media movement of young people talking about alternatives approaches to learning and education. There are several here who do so including @LearningToan and @zeldapoem. We need thousands more" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1711863270930366468) 2023-10-10T21:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Our students love our program because they love to engage in conversation. Our students enjoy 2-4 hours of intellectual dialogue every day. Some come from homes where it is familiar to think about ideas. For others it is new but they soon love the experience of thinking" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1712101929134784993) 2023-10-11T13:44Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements "@DylanWu Big time. I wrote my book after leading Socratic Seminars in public schools. It felt like I was liberating prisoners. Most were so eager to discuss ideas. It turns out that there are various strategies needed for this to work consistently; thus the book" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1712137423759499589) 2023-10-11T16:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@mualphaxi As of [----] NLG was still defending North Korea still believing it as a legitimate attempt at socialist utopia long after everyone else knew N Korea was bonkers. It is unfair to The Federalist Society to compare them to NLG which is totally nuts:" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1712586366293344714) 2023-10-12T21:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And @zeldapoem high school dropout is doing a great job developing a school @magattew and I have in Senegal while also teaching an elective class at @socraticexp on Becoming an Adult. She has solved several problems in our African program in the last [--] months. Initiative" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1712594075373760821) 2023-10-12T22:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "At @socraticexp students spend 2-4 hours per day in intellectual dialogue meaningful conversations about things that matter to them. They love it - we have solved the high school engagement problem (66% of HS students are not engaged). Weve measured it using @ImmersionNeuro " [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1712844569954386263) 2023-10-13T14:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@momadvocate04 @joshcowenMSU Im not simplifying it as you claim. I run a virtual private school that attracts many students both w learning differences + often mental health challenges we are one of many options eager to attract students that dont flourish elsewhere. Microschools are often great options" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1713019483822911634) 2023-10-14T02:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@momadvocate04 @joshcowenMSU If a child is at risk - due to mental health challenges gang recruitment bullying etc. + new enviro solves the issue the school is better full stop. If a child is at risk test scores dont matter. I want Josh + other ideological opponents of choice to acknowledge this" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1713025797055766861) 2023-10-14T02:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@joshcowenMSU Dramatically reducing the public-school-to-prison-pipeline is a catastrophic outcome Specifically exposure to the MPCP is associated with a reduction of around [--] percent in drug convictions [--] percent in property damage convictions and [--] percent in paternity suits" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1713944169943646522) 2023-10-16T15:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "We need to consider that conventional schooling may be a serious risk factor for the wellbeing of millions of children. Sadly the risk includes suicide. On many Mondays during the school year the risk of teen suicide is nearly 2x of the risk in July a pattern that stops on grad" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1714347592203526504) 2023-10-17T18:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It is important that educators not be emotionally reactive. I was once on the board of an altschool that had an award winning science teacher who even after much coaching would snap at kids when angry. I recommended that she be fired as it destroyed the learning environment" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1715434764096729246) 2023-10-20T18:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@DylanWu Except for students who want more - math is tremendously valuable for a wide range of work. But math should not be FORCED on students beyond what you suggest" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1716526034311397772) 2023-10-23T18:44Z 12.2K followers, [--] engagements "@joshcowenMSU If the students who remain in public schools are more likely to die of suicide or to suffer from mental illness or fall into the school to prison pipeline then public school is the catastrophic path. Josh are you willing to bet on non-cognitive ESA outcomes such as these" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1718623879977939454) 2023-10-29T13:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I have never been as bored as an adult as I was in secondary school. Life is incredibly fast moving dynamic and exciting. The only thing as an adult which is as remotely as dull as school is the DMV. I think of schooling as forcing kids to wait in the DMV for a decade or so" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1719028069887861023) 2023-10-30T16:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "In addition to the high profile @thielfellowship winners there are thousands of teens who create smaller businesses or go directly to work for startups without college. Skills and entrepreneurial initiative are more important than credentials in the digital economy" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1719323491130851690) 2023-10-31T12:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Ed_Realist If kids are not unhappy w their current public schools then given choice they will stay there. Opponents of choice implicitly acknowledge that public schools will lose market share - because customers are unhappy. If they were satisfied there is no reason to oppose choice" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1720590965574893731) 2023-11-03T23:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Every parent should have access to funding for their children to learn in an environment in which they flourish. Whether it is homeschooling virtual schooling learning pods micro schools etc. parents have more options than ever once they have access to the funding" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1721981656414789879) 2023-11-07T20:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The parent said employees of the school district had visited the familys home and rifled through clothing. That was just one of [---] home visits the school district executed over the past five years and one of roughly [----] residency investigations it conducted in that period. Awful to see school districts doubling-down on educational red-lining instead of opening their doors to #schoolchoice St. Louis-area school district aggressively audits student housing citing educational larceny https://t.co/lRYNjJ3KOi Awful to see school districts doubling-down on educational red-lining instead of" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1722040639158661171) 2023-11-07T23:57Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements "Soon [--] million children will be able to escape the system if they need to do so. Insofar as the system contributes to a wide range of adolescent challenges this represents an immense opportunity for the next generation. They can escape bullying abuse meaninglessness etc" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1722275322337611960) 2023-11-08T15:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Scolianormative expectations pathologize millions of healthy innocent children. Parents and students alike are told that children have various problems that they do not have outside of schooling and would not have if they were free to make their own choices every day instead" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1722999639228432862) 2023-11-10T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Millions of children having better lives. 🎶 The best is yet to come and wont it be fine You think youve seen the sun but you aint seen it shine 🎶 @lindseymburke @JasonBedrick @DeAngelisCorey @jaypgreene https://t.co/QaN4cLamG4 🎶 The best is yet to come and wont it be fine You think youve seen the sun but you aint seen it shine 🎶 @lindseymburke @JasonBedrick @DeAngelisCorey @jaypgreene https://t.co/QaN4cLamG4" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1725637013561356372) 2023-11-17T22:08Z 12.2K followers, [---] engagements "Kudos to @IanVRowe for his forthright advocacy of strategies that change lives - while simultaneously building charter schools that exemplify his advocacy. This is what a hero looks like" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1726334641966313552) 2023-11-19T20:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Im constantly approached by ppl w new ways of learning: games apps dyslexia soft skills math etc. What most Ed innovators discover is ALL mainstream cares about are mainstream standards/assess. No matter how great your innovation is if it is not focused on that it is dead" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1726473369372275040) 2023-11-20T05:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Beyond Political Tribalisms: Inventing New Political Tropes What if we need new conceptual understandings and categories to improve the human condition but our evolved cognitive structures kept us mostly stuck in obsolete coalitional holding patterns" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1726635829718888502) 2023-11-20T16:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ted_agon Switzerland is the most decentralized nation. The largest canton is about the size of San Antonio. Sweden has one of the most free market ed systems. More relevantly culture is a leading factor in socioeconomic outcomes-for instance Japanese Am make about 30% more than ave US" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1727520122040979510) 2023-11-23T02:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@ted_agon Immigrants from those countries do as well/better in US as they do in home countries. Culture+ genetic background have a much bigger impact on ed outcomes than does any schooling process at scale. There may be small programs that transcend these influences but not guv systems" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1727685053860159530) 2023-11-23T13:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "reading for pleasure in early childhood was linked w better scores on comprehensive cognition assessments +better educational attainment in young adolescence. It was also associated w fewer mental health problems +less time spent on electronic devices" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1728427803668795701) 2023-11-25T14:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A great piece by @educatedandfree especially useful for articulating why school is a mental health disaster for children and how hopeless it is to try to change the system" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1728502285506883671) 2023-11-25T19:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@daedaluslearn Many schools might wish their math classes to be taught by math majors and their physics classes by physics majors. If so the key is to stop paying the math and physics teachers the same as the gym teacher" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1728881399921586622) 2023-11-26T21:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@revtatum You are heroic for your relentless focus on improving the lives of young people" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1729171746610385240) 2023-11-27T16:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@magattew +I stopped by @AmityAge Bitcoin education center at @Prosperahn yesterday while also seeing the @guidepostschool the award winning Duna Tower and other community features. All amazing. Visit Prospera if you get a chance. Follow @NiklasAnzinger for cool events there" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1730006878157951306) 2023-11-29T23:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In Purpose class today at @socraticexp we discussed What do you love about how you see the world (Mondays are always a variation on What do you love) Initially it was a difficult question for them but by end of class each one had come up w a thoughtful + honest response" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1731829816817561661) 2023-12-05T00:16Z 12.2K followers, [---] engagements "@DylanWu @socraticexp Good for you. I enjoyed our call will circle back around in a few weeks" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1731845796281061528) 2023-12-05T01:19Z 12.2K followers, [--] engagements "This child went on to attend Harvard and is happy and well adjusted - BECAUSE he was pulled from public school: Our son started dry heaving on Sunday nights in the second grade. Thats when we opted to homeschool. The mom suffered considerable social disapproval at the time" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1731861558714573086) 2023-12-05T02:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@NumbersMan65 @joshcowenMSU @hechingerreport Certainly I support a ban on funding schools that advocate initiation of force + it is important that Christianity has mostly been tamed by Enlightenment. But between barbaric medieval Christianity on the one hand + protective impact of religion on wellbeing is a lot of space" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1732108351125787070) 2023-12-05T18:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@nataliehastings @NumbersMan65 @joshcowenMSU @hechingerreport Do you believe that increased fervor has a relevant relationship to the stated outcomes If so do you believe they improve stated outcomes or not Why Im honestly not sure how fervor would be relevant to these findings" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1732182093835243862) 2023-12-05T23:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "One of the schools I created was for highly gifted students. We had middle school students taking and passing AP exams. The Elements of Math program at IMACS we used had students entering Harvard at level of 3rd year math majors. School slows down a significant % of students" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1732788361784390047) 2023-12-07T15:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@HippyMomPhD @stjohnscollege These are MUCH better when read and discussed together. Many of these are not easy by a long shot. There are many unfamiliar concepts and notations. If you get into it and want a slimmed down greatest hits version Id be happy to discuss my perspective" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1733629288056783195) 2023-12-09T23:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In a [----] survey conducted by Samuel Abrams and Next Gen Politics 60% of high school students in New York City said they wouldnt offer their opinions in class because of concerns about how others would respond" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1733921525005173102) 2023-12-10T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Thiel Fellowship is one of the most original and important philanthropic projects of the 21st century. Congrats to @William_Blake and @DStrachman founders for picking so many great teen entrepreneurs from the very beginning" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1734724846888656976) 2023-12-13T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@UPuritano A year in Costa Rica much cheaper than a year in US. One still must be free from other family commitments + be able to work virtually so not an option for everyone. That said with ESA legislation in some states ($15k+ per kid) it could become possible even w/o virtual work" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1734773891170529655) 2023-12-13T03:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Ive long believed that dialogue w children is a powerful way of developing childrens minds (see my Socratic Michael Strong YouTube channel). This does not go that far but is compelling evidence that children hearing adult talk talk more -regardless of socioeconomic status" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1735122189131579757) 2023-12-14T02:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@TuurDemeester The Monbiot allegations are based on an absolute garbage article on @AtlasNetwork published by @TheNewRepublic. One of their criticisms was that Atlas was against Hugo Chavez. @magattew responded here" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1738359344444399905) 2023-12-23T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MrTaylorMaths2 @ColbyLyons31742 Ive spent most of past [--] years in SF and Austin. Almost all of the young people launching great careers with startups are self-starters who are driving their own education +careers. See @1517fund for the leading VC fund investing in teen entrepreneurs read their manifesto" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1739807521324364219) 2023-12-27T00:36Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements "Ivan Illich John Holt and John Taylor Gatto are all making a fundamentally moral/spiritual argument about the harms of conventional schooling. For many of us once we have seen these harms they cant be unseen. But for many the exact same process of schooling seems benign. It cannot be said too often or too strongly that what is most wrong with (schools) is not technical but moral not a matter of methods but of purposes not of means but of ends. - John Holt Instead of Education It cannot be said too often or too strongly that what is most wrong with (schools) is not technical but moral not a" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1740472899528503516) 2023-12-28T20:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A Practical Approach to an Idealistic New Social Vision: Why we need to legalize markets in happiness and well-being My latest Substack post:" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1741993970589159843) 2024-01-02T01:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@SFulton24 I completely agree. I like the expression Layers of reasons and suspect that the issue goes much more deeply than most realize. Ultimately I see school choice as the most effective means of addressing the adolescent mental health crisis" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1742302059238391966) 2024-01-02T21:49Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements "Ive worked w school refusers. This thread provides insight into their experiential reality. Given a healthier learning environment school refusers flourish. I had one who was out of school for [--] years then went on to a top [--] liberal arts college. Another coded for @SpaceX . Ive been talking to young people who have struggled with school attendance. Sometimes called school refusers or phobics or those with emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA). Heres what Ive learnt. 1/ Ive been talking to young people who have struggled with school attendance. Sometimes called school refusers or phobics" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742317099496718700) 2024-01-02T22:49Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Just like cell phones broke land lines. I havent had a land line since 1990s. I quit with conventional schools about same time. Now most of entrepreneurs I know are also leaving them behind. The future consists of high agency learning. Now for elites in the future for all" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1742977686564225432) 2024-01-04T18:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@CovingtonEDU @eduwonkette_jen By means of homeschooling virtual schooling learning pods microschools educational networks national chains new Ed entrepreneurs etc. supply will grow to meet demand. This is an exceptionally dynamic space in AZ and FL thanks to choice programs. Proliferating options" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1742979118315233418) 2024-01-04T18:39Z 11.9K followers, [---] engagements "@CovingtonEDU @DenisaCasement @eduwonkette_jen It takes time for diff models to be adopted by diff demographics. That is normal. I come from the working class. Most working class people are inclined towards trad Ed. But as choice becomes normalized across all demographics choices (and options) will become more sophisticated" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1743068657616384278) 2024-01-05T00:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen I have high net worth tech entrepreneurs sending their kids to the $12k version of my school. I have low income AZ families getting the full experience for $7500. We also have scholarship students from Pakistan and Senegal. We have an extraordinary range of socioeconomic status" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1743420216078451010) 2024-01-05T23:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@TtstcBitchcakes @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Are you denying that an upscale segment is moving towards more agency based models of private education Or that these models will gradually become lower cost and higher quality What is the specific empirical premise you deny" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1743423564240306229) 2024-01-06T00:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@soccercoachlori @AdonicaSS @eduwonkette_jen @socraticexp Im all for providing a level playing field for all schools public and private. And in order to serve kids best we need to minimize regulatory requirements. Ive had the best results with kids with significant learning challenges when I can give them a break from academics" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1743443461217354204) 2024-01-06T01:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen I cant solve all the problems all the time. I have been involved in transpartisan movements working to reign in extremists including conservatives in TX. I see school choice as a higher moral priority than trying to stop a particular crazy. Plus I believe it will reduce crazy" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1743455831633391961) 2024-01-06T02:13Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements "@DenisaCasement @AdonicaSS @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen 75% of American high school students are unhappy at school 66% are not engaged in learning suicide rates go up during the school year etc. The notion that kids are okay at school as it is not even selective fluff" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743457508855877644) 2024-01-06T02:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Ive created innovative schools based on Montessori and Socratic principles in AK FL CA NM NY MO and TX. Most upscale liberal parents love these programs. My target market is largely the same as the Montessori/Whole Foods Market/NPR demographic. Im not a TX Republican" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743788376216531356) 2024-01-07T00:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen There are certainly many factors erosion of social capital/community among them. But if parents had been able to choose since the beginning they would have chosen healthier environments as the cultural erosion hit. FYI material standards have dramatically improved since 1960" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1743790941339627784) 2024-01-07T00:25Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements "@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Public schools have 3x funding since [----]. US is among highest per capita spending on K12 in OECD. Utah spends least yet has highest rates of social mobility in US. Choice will benefit lowest income most by providing access to relevant social capital" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743791967073436134) 2024-01-07T00:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Alana and I deciphering a paragraph on "Scientific Objectivity" from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The goal is to learn to work to understand difficult abstract prose (+ incidentally to begin to introduce her to the concept at hand)" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1744048141836411310) 2024-01-07T17:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen See Hispanic Health Paradox the fact that recent Hispanic immigrants have better health outcomes which gradually disappear applies to mental health as well. US teen culture is toxic. There is a large study showing the greater the exposure to US culture higher suicide rates" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1744385398929850802) 2024-01-08T15:47Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements "@soccercoachlori @joshsteimle @eduwonkette_jen There is an entire generation of kids creating great careers for themselves outside the system. Teens learn software development UI/UX digital marketing video production social media marketing etc. + go on to fabulous lives w/o college digital nomads traveling the world" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1744774109140005372) 2024-01-09T17:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Another uninformed fact free comment. Our student population includes African-American Latin-American Asian-American Muslim-American as well as students from Pakistan Senegal Kenya Mexico Panama Iraq Chile etc. We have an exceptionally diverse student population" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1744775752841613447) 2024-01-09T17:38Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements "@AdonicaSS @soccercoachlori @eduwonkette_jen @socraticexp For people interested in such careers Im all for world class test performance. For those interested in other paths where tests are irrelevant why waste time FYI 93% of freelancers say skills are more important than degrees many creatives here" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1744785739202650387) 2024-01-09T18:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@soccercoachlori @joshsteimle @eduwonkette_jen I trys parents to choose what is valuable for their children over opaque and dysfunctional bureaucracies. When one adds the human damage from conventional schooling including mental health suicide gang recruitment public school to prison pipeline etc. it is a no brainer" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744786304385118719) 2024-01-09T18:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The radicalization of @NateSilver538 in recent years is one of the most encouraging signs of intellectual vibrancy among high profile public intellectuals out there. He used to be the very symbol of mainstream sensibility. Now he is fed up with mainstream sensibilities. If the experts think that misinformation is a bigger problem than war then a way bigger problem than misinformation is that the experts are fucking idiots. If the experts think that misinformation is a bigger problem than war then a way bigger problem than misinformation is that the experts are fucking idiots" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1745551339361358197) 2024-01-11T21:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The view from the top floor of The Academy of Thought and Industry in Pacific Heights in SF the Montessori high school model I created" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1745561313659502691) 2024-01-11T21:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@MamanLunettes What credits were trickier to get Did she really need to go to school One doesnt need a diploma anyway but if one wants one there are online options for everything" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1745625737418150231) 2024-01-12T01:56Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements "Hurrah From A Theory of Everyone p.268 https://t.co/1GdTCvnVOt From A Theory of Everyone p.268 https://t.co/1GdTCvnVOt" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1745815954263535955) 2024-01-12T14:32Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements "@ConcvCre8Repeat The key is a governance layer that provides a world class business environment in developing nations where such environments are lacking. Beyond that diverse use cases depending on local conditions. Some places manufacturing others digital work etc" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1745826547334795520) 2024-01-12T15:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@_alice_evans If you havent read Yaloms A history of the wife I recommend it. She credits the commercial Dutch republic with the popular rise of companionate marriage in Europe. There were earlier examples but as a mainstream cultural model it is that recent" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1746645498331623683) 2024-01-14T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@calebrw @eduwonkette_jen Do you know of anyone defending segregation academies At @socraticexp weve had students from Mexico Panama Chile Iraq Qatar. Egypt Senegal Kenya. Taiwan + Asian Am African Am Hispanic Am Muslim Am many LGBTQ etc. We are more diverse than 95%+ of public schools" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1747025260136825195) 2024-01-15T22:37Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements "Shocking in an incredibly good way. I often speak w people who despair about changes in our educational system. With such a high % of parents willing to switch change could happen much more rapidly than anyone imagines. Will we have a fall of the Berlin Wall moment in k12 Last year about half of families considered switching schools. This year that number is more than [--] in [--]. Additionally 64% of parents say they wish they had more information about education options for their children. new poll from @NSCWMedia 👇 https://t.co/pW5BiV6oJx https://t.co/MJg3XsPHVR Last year about half of" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1747393754019897659) 2024-01-16T23:01Z [--] followers, 13.5K engagements "Ill be discussing adolescent flourishing in the high agency @AlphaSchoolATX with @mackenzieprice of Alpha next Tuesday. Come join us if youre in Austin Join us Tuesday evening for a discussion on K-12 education with @mackenzieprice and @flowidealism. Well have food games and live music too. Bring your family: https://t.co/3poXVJAB8y https://t.co/SeUAVUHtPr Join us Tuesday evening for a discussion on K-12 education with @mackenzieprice and @flowidealism. Well have food games and live music too. Bring your family: https://t.co/3poXVJAB8y https://t.co/SeUAVUHtPr" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1747780054115926366) 2024-01-18T00:36Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "@CrnchyMama @eduwonkette_jen @GrinchGaaS @Moms4Liberty @BLK_MindsMatter [----] data showing the same thing: Private Homeschooling Charter Public School" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1748430197764890715) 2024-01-19T19:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@magattew interviews @VitalikButerin on Effective Altruism Prosperity in Africa through Startup Cities and the benefits of crypto in Africa" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1748847793265856966) 2024-01-20T23:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Upon learning about mixed age classrooms in Montessori I took it as an idiosyncratic element. But then as I saw the dramatic difference that mature older peers can have on younger students I realized how essential it was how powerfully formative positive older children are. People like to emphasize how socialization with peers is important for development. But is age segregated socialization with peers who are being coerced all day really so wonderful I think it often shapes kids very negatively making them confused lost and insecure. People like to emphasize how socialization with peers is" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1748902204482674723) 2024-01-21T02:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Over the decades Ive known hundreds of children who were anxious depressed suicidal in one learning environment who then became happy + well in a different one. It is abundantly obvious to me that some children who suffer in traditional schooling thrive in other enviros. 3/17" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1749192636303339636) 2024-01-21T22:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The bigotry from the schooling establishment is that these kids are flawed/marginal losers. Of course I know students who couldnt endure schooling who later went to Harvard +other top unis or autodidacts that dropped out later worked for top corps like Google/Tesla. 4/17" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1749192638270435374) 2024-01-21T22:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Pediatric suicides increase during the school year. This is a well established seasonal pattern that stops at [--]. Suicide rates are almost 2x during school year on Mondays in Oct Nov Jan vs. July. Why isnt there as much a focus as the campaign against drunk driving 7/17" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1749192646898192591) 2024-01-21T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Add to that the fact that teen suicides are up about 300% since the 1950s. @JonHaidt and @jean_twenge have appropriately called attention to the more recent role of smartphones in the adolescent mental health epidemic. But kids have not been okay in our society for decades. 8/17" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1749192649301454974) 2024-01-21T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I know many educators/policy makers believe we have no obligation to make school less unpleasant. They associate positive experiences with a lack of rigor. But note that people willingly choose extremely demanding activities such as CrossFit or martial arts and love them. 12/17" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1749192658088534421) 2024-01-21T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "How to engage students in high rigor activities while also respecting them +providing choice in what they pursue is an important path forward in k12. But ignoring the suffering +time wasted is not the way. Trad schooling is a mental health disaster for some % of students. 13/17" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1749192660458365335) 2024-01-21T22:10Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements "I predict that as we have better data we will find that trad schooling plays a significant role in the mental health catastrophe of modernity. W more personalized humane learning environments will we reduce anxiety depression suicides by 10% 50% 90% We dont know. 14/17" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1749192662681264433) 2024-01-21T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@BrianCAlbrecht You represent a passion for the explanatory powers of price theory once a great tradition at Chicago + UCLA. Without being grandiose about it (you are not) situate your work as an important continuation of that tradition. Students have no idea of the import of that legacy" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1749601463502848212) 2024-01-23T01:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "See post at @LivingFossilsSS on What would Hunter-Gatherers Do As a heuristic for mental health. @BretWeinstein + @HeatherEHeying also here in their book as does ev psychiatry movement is similar. My piece on evolutionary mismatch + mental health" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1749878439346139561) 2024-01-23T19:35Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements "@joshcowenMSU Im culturally liberal on these issues (w the exception of no gender affirmations that include surgical or hormonal treatments of minors). Ive been trying to get you to acknowledge the mental health damages from schools forever plus character + wellness benefits of choice" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750647165406326912) 2024-01-25T22:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@mormo_music There are a continuum of behaviors described as and diagnosed as ADHD. US prescription rates far exceed those of other nations. The extent to which attention is forced and classroom behavior requires sitting combined w big pharma leads to excessive pathologizing of childhood" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1751228433676316697) 2024-01-27T12:59Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements "Kids should be able to go as fast as they can in math. Im in favor of access to either self-paced math or as many tracks as possible. There are easily 20-30% of students who could graduate with several years additional math if allowed. By global standards US math is slow. Important @tomloveless99 article from 2022: "SFUSD embarked on a detracking initiative in [----] followed by an extensive public relations campaign to portray the policy as having successfully narrowed achievement gaps. The campaign omitted assessment data indicating that the Important @tomloveless99 article from 2022: "SFUSD" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1751476270909571156) 2024-01-28T05:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Hypothesis: Students at large impersonal public middle schools are more likely to be anxious depressed + suicidal than are students at small micro schools with rich relationships. If we could quantify how much better off are students in the latter w respect to mental health" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1752075655179640986) 2024-01-29T21:06Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements "@SharellF60221 If we compare the top 20% of positive microschools with the bottom 20% of large impersonal public the difference with respect to mental health and wellbeing is more likely 5-10x. Once we have good data no one will leave their children in lord of the flies social enviros" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1752663861503697098) 2024-01-31T12:03Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements "I very much look forward to this conversation with @naomicfisher and @ThoughtStretchr . Im increasingly convinced that the mental health harms from trad Ed are much larger than most realize even if it is only for a subset of the population. My question is about magnitude. Does traditional schooling lead to poor mental health for students We'll discuss that question with @naomicfisher @flowidealism and you Learn more and RSVP for this ThoughtStretchers Education Community event here: https://t.co/pXdjRAJzgb https://t.co/FtID1BRHsb Does traditional schooling lead to poor mental health for" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1753517470248272322) 2024-02-02T20:35Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements "And meanwhile the daily processed food mandated by government would recommend large servings of carbs and minimal servings of fats which we now know leads to a public health catastrophe. Likewise bureaucratic schooling has led to a guv enforced teen mental health catastrophe. Imagine if society was forced to adopt a protocol of the govt giving kids daily processed food until [--]. Imagine it went on for 100+ years & parents grew up with an expectation of that free food. Going back to real food would be called risky experimental & alternative. Imagine if society was forced to adopt a protocol of" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1754184226763665657) 2024-02-04T16:44Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements "Im very much looking forward to this conversation on the harmful effects of schooling on mental health on the 25th w @dperkinsed and @naomicfisher tune in if you can or listen afterwards. Thanks to @ThoughtStretchr for hosting it. We have some great online 'events' coming up with folks like @naomicfisher @flowidealism @RonRitchhart @Brigitte_Blom of @PrichardCom @RichHarwood of @HarwoodInst & @kjinquiry all hosted by @dperkinsed & more to be added soon Learn more & RSVP at: https://t.co/Fp61rGZsJk https://t.co/ytkMc5hNfE We have some great online 'events' coming up with folks like" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1754184931188568551) 2024-02-04T16:47Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements "Extracurricular coaching is the healthiest aspect of public school. Almost everyone has chosen the sport/activity they are aligned in achieving excellence and good/great coaches know it is about the whole human being. And there is usually less bureaucracy than on academics. It's far beyond a seasonal/part-time job. It's far beyond a seasonal/part-time job" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1754195934387261905) 2024-02-04T17:31Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements "@eduwonkette_jen $455 for Summit which they can almost certainly provide a scholarship. The real benefit of ESA legislation is to stimulate more options. If there are not currently spaces at existing schools new schools will be created wherever there is demand. This is the primary benefit" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1754546319371239469) 2024-02-05T16:43Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements "Maria Montessori believed that her method was transforming humanity. Then a hostile prof of ed derailed her work in the US + Mussolini stopped it in Italy. Ed professors have mostly been hostile/indifferent. Guv schools have prevented widespread adoption. Renaissance at last The headline on this local TV news story is "Florida school voucher program makes private schools more accessible for families." The focus is on a booming Montessori school. There are now MORE THAN [---] Montessori schools participating in Florida's choice programs. Another The headline on this local TV news story is" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1754583700333863255) 2024-02-05T19:12Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements "@ThoughtStretchr is hosting the following conversation between @naomicfisher and I moderated by @dperkinsed on The Side Effects of School: Does Traditional School Lead to Poor Mental Health for Students. Please join us on Feb. 25th" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1754643153963937973) 2024-02-05T23:08Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements "@JenniferCa47882 @NeuroscienceNew Thanks powerful and sad" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1754666624248901748) 2024-02-06T00:41Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements "My political philosophy: Governance is hard. All of the following are in a failure mode: US China Russia UN EU WEF I could go on. Which entities would you bet on to be much more successful [--] years than they are now Bitcoin is the only one that comes to mind. Maybe more" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1756904841140424854) 2024-02-12T04:55Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements "Im delighted to be discussing this issue with @dperkinsed and @naomicfisher on Feb. 25th. There are multiple pathways through which trad schools damage the mental health of some students. At a minimum feeling connected to others at school protects against many issues. Does traditional schooling lead to poor mental health for students We'll be discussing this with @naomicfisher & @flowidealism AND YOU on Feb 25th. Learn more and RSVP for this 'members-only' online event here: https://t.co/TKjZb25s8j https://t.co/lDKnR5G3hI Does traditional schooling lead to poor mental health for students" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1757799984605303178) 2024-02-14T16:12Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements "What @Sanilac_J is trying to solve w Ultrahumanism (see linked article in thread below his clip) is similar to how I see the entrepreneurial creation of governance and culture - the only long term robust solutions are based on deeply human communities optimized for wellbeing. Predictions from a year ago looking more plausible every day. https://t.co/rfjCzD2WbV Predictions from a year ago looking more plausible every day. https://t.co/rfjCzD2WbV" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1758523930162106418) 2024-02-16T16:09Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "If k12 provided a much deeper level of connection community meaning and purpose the adolescent mental health crisis would be much smaller than it is. Yes social media has exacerbated trends in a terrifying way. But trad schooling is the problem" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1758987390222279161) 2024-02-17T22:50Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "@FountainheadFm There may have been a blip in some places but my understanding is that it back on its downward trajectory" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1759274105063272654) 2024-02-18T17:50Z 11.9K followers, [--] engagements "@priyanka_optom Given your description it sounds like sandbox games such as Minecraft and Roblox (rather than dopamine hits like first person shooter games)" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1759651552669606138) 2024-02-19T18:49Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "@keyhusted @joshcowenMSU @P_Diddy_Wolf Compare the results w this finding by @Dr_RolandFryer For males incarceration rates dropped from [--] percent among non-winners to zero for winners. From a randomized lottery study. It make senses that school enviro could have a significant impact" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1760358892448493806) 2024-02-21T17:40Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "@keyhusted @joshcowenMSU @P_Diddy_Wolf @Dr_RolandFryer Ive been creating small personalized alternative schools for decades. Ive seen 100s of students who were anxious depressed suicidal at a conventional school change schools and become happy and well. As we gather data I predict significantly better mental health outcomes" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1760413341996998859) 2024-02-21T21:17Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "@foragethefacts I agree that early specialization is more appropriate for limited domains such as chess. That said similar principles can be applied to the kind of generalist education that Epstein rightly emphasizes. I specialize in Socratic dialogue w children very much developing range" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1761059692325810253) 2024-02-23T16:05Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "@Trent_STEMpunk Yes and for those who are eager to learn +experience some agency as a learner it will be amazing. But insofar as most kids have their love of learning beat out of them by schooling they will prefer digital escapism to learning. We need schools that develop students as learners" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1761887294565355537) 2024-02-25T22:53Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "@JamesPoetzscher @AgustinLebron3 James is correct most high school classes move glacially slow compared to decent college classes. There are certainly exceptions but basically the default expectation is that not much is going on in a standard high school class" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1762233547245424832) 2024-02-26T21:49Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "Outside of STEM professional degrees (law medicine and business) college degrees rarely add value. Including the opportunity cost ROI is often negative. Imagine getting a marketing degree based on outdated textbooks from State U vs. learning digital marketing via YouTube Forget "disrupting Harvard" Instead just shut down the 50% of mid-tier universities that provide little to no value to graduates [--] years after graduation - 22% are making $15 min wage - 12% are making $0-5k more year - 17% are making $5-10k more per year via HEA Group https://t.co/16aPw8apvT Forget "disrupting Harvard"" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763667030295585009) 2024-03-01T20:46Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "Im a discussion w students at @socraticexp today on the adolescent mental health crisis. They focused on the need to have a purpose to be valued by a community + how social media + gaming addictions were a side effect of not feeling valuable. Why did we do this to teens 1/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717458630779092) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "In traditional cultures at puberty young people began adult roles. They were expected to be valuable members of the tribe or community. There was little or no functional mental illness. It was only in the 20th century that we disconnected teens from society and meaning. 2/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717460719448156) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "Liah Greenfeld describes functional mental illness as due to anomie + the burden of creating a personal identity. In trad cultures w set roles no such burden existed. But individual identity gradually became a norm 1st among Elizabethan elites then for all of modernity. 3/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717462468563425) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "Religious belief maintained a protective element (atheists commit suicide Protestants Catholics + Jews). But religious belief has been declining even as all previous cultural norms have been disintegrating in the face of technology. Anomie has been growing for decades. 4/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717464108482789) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "But prior to compulsory high school teens still had the world of work and family responsibilities to give them a sense of meaning and purpose. But in the 1950s for the 1st time a majority of teens graduated from high school. The result: concerns about juvenile delinquency. 5/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717465811357853) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "@jean_twenge + @JonHaidt are doing great work on the role of social media in exacerbating the adolescent mental health crisis. But the rise in teen suicides began in the 1950s steadily upward until the 1990s then a dip (SSRIs) then up again in the 00s faster after [----]. 6/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717467539374114) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "Maria Montessori recognized in [----] that an adolescent needs to feel valorized to feel capable and useful valuable in their community. When teens still worked +did chores they had that. But gradually attending school and entertaining themselves displaced other roles. 7/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717469280063550) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "In trad societies ostracism from the community was a brutal punishment. Now we expect teens: 1) To create their own identities. 2) While largely preventing them from being valuable in their communities. 3) While providing addictive screens. We have ostracized their souls. 8/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717470945255766) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "Im not recommending a return to the past. But I do regard it as urgent to provide young people w opportunities to create meaningful roles for themselves. They can do it in many ways but they need support in becoming valuable and recognition for contributing to the world. 9/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717475516993719) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "At @socraticexp we do so by: 1). Supporting students in real world creative +entrepreneurial achievements. 2). Expecting them to play a role in + improving their learning environment including leading when they are ready. 3). Mentoring them on their path in the world. 10/10" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1763717477219910075) 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "@AgustinLebron3 @prendalearn has a system that sets parents up to create a [--] student microschool in their homes. They are active in AZ w universal ESAs. Each parent becomes an entrepreneur recruiting families but oft they are learning pods formalizing into a school" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1770186525210239154) 2024-03-19T20:32Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "@AndraLiemandt Insofar as she is confident secure and well-loved with a sense of purpose she is much less likely to get into adverse circumstances. But it is worth going over all of the potential dangers out there w/o causing alarm. How to do laundry is trivial compared to risk reduction" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1771219783901450413) 2024-03-22T16:57Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "Fascinating article. Best new data point: Nations w more gender equality score least well on chess gender equality ratings - Denmark Iceland and Sweden are worst in the world similar to finding that fewer women go into STEM in gender equal nations pointing to preferences. This has to be one of the most comprehensive and fascinating articles on sex differences ever written. Bravo @hoovlet (I know you worked hard on this) https://t.co/zrwwz5qtaG This has to be one of the most comprehensive and fascinating articles on sex differences ever written. Bravo @hoovlet (I know you worked hard on this)" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1771263803147145290) 2024-03-22T19:52Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "NY will be one of the last states to pass ESA legislation but when they do what an opportunity for entrepreneurial teachers: Educate [--] students for $150k or [--] for $300k Higher spend does not automatically lead to higher performance for schools government and companies. Higher spend does not automatically lead to higher performance for schools government and companies" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1773381288868688091) 2024-03-28T16:07Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "@bigfatsurprise Bacon is the candy of meat" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1776688571249832398) 2024-04-06T19:08Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "Im all in favor of having students memorize basic math facts especially the times tables. Fluency is valuable. I also see the value of memorizing poems I find beautiful. But as a learner I have never found memorizing facts for tests to be valuable. Most of secondary education was memorize and forget get the A on the test and let it go. As an adult I have an immense knowledge base that comes entirely from expanding my understanding of issues. I retain facts because they enrich my understanding of the world not because I memorize them. I want students to care about understanding the world to" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1777374821736731003) 2024-04-08T16:35Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "@DStrachman Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Dolly Parton One of my favorite quotes" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1778156575628107998) 2024-04-10T20:22Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements "@PlayNiceInst Im always delighted to find someone else who tells it like it is. Are public schools causing an epidemic of mental illness https://flowidealism.medium.com/are-public-schools-causing-an-epidemic-of-mental-illness-1b37b6c0ef3e https://flowidealism.medium.com/are-public-schools-causing-an-epidemic-of-mental-illness-1b37b6c0ef3e" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1779660512625676361) 2024-04-14T23:58Z 10.6K followers, [--] engagements "@justinfinck @PlayNiceInst @JonHaidt Part of the prob as @JonHaidt notes is that social media is replacing healthy activities (eg @FreeRangeKids ). But he has just begun to note the ways that trad schooling is actively harmful (while also replacing healthy activities). High agency learning is the next frontier" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1779664062894207476) 2024-04-15T00:12Z 10.6K followers, [--] engagements "@_alice_evans Years ago I realized that the best rationale for a larger oil tax was to quit subsidizing the worst regimes in the world (Norway was not a player then). Cheering you on in the hopes that you can introduce rationality into conversations on how to improve conditions for women" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1779888704573632599) 2024-04-15T15:05Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements "The genius of Montessori was that she created a childhood environment in which this type of behavior quickly becomes normal. Actually the normal child is one who is precociously intelligent who has learned to overcome himself and to live in peace and who prefers a disciplined task to futile idleness. Montessori Actually the normal child is one who is precociously intelligent who has learned to overcome himself and to live in peace and who prefers a disciplined task to futile idleness. Montessori" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1779952366390821155) 2024-04-15T19:18Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "More people need to speak up about this. Elementary wasnt so bad but most of secondary school was a tedious wasteland. School has stolen my childhood and Ill never forgive them School has stolen my childhood and Ill never forgive them" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1780971391983960295) 2024-04-18T14:47Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "@MakesMarty The quotation is from @bryan_caplan but I understand him to mean that most educational content is not used by students. The skills of reading writing and arithmetic are exceptions but those can be learned in a small fraction of the time currently devoted to schooling" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1781805771107213566) 2024-04-20T22:02Z 10.9K followers, [---] engagements "My question is How well will they grok unstructured situations for which there are no training data Humans are physically immersed beings embedded in social and cultural meaning systems. We perceive new realities in real time before any relevant training data exist. At some point it is possible that the full gestalt of human existence may be made available as training data. But that is awhile away. Einstein was making a gestalt move based on rethinking time and simultaneity through consistent reasoning. No relevant training data existed - unless these esoteric conceptual skills rare among" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1781908539402760652) 2024-04-21T04:51Z 10.9K followers, [---] engagements "After a brief check in to see what she knows about Bitcoin and money (with a brief audio problem after which the audio is clear) we begin working through the first two paragraphs of Saifedean Ammous's book The Bitcoin Standard. The achievement is that she is ready and able to read and discuss such complex prose at age [--] (having been doing this with me since age [--] see other videos at the channel). Some concepts are still fuzzy but we'll keep working towards greater depth and mastery" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1782087507267695038) 2024-04-21T16:42Z 11K followers, [---] engagements "While Im very critical of digital addictions and generally agree with Twenge and Haidts account of the harms that social media has caused young girls they have also been wonderful. This video is a great feel good piece. .@nickgillespie talks often of the way the internet and social media have given a voice to all sorts of preciously voiceless people and how it has empowered them to be creative and change the world a little bit. Here is the story of one of those people. https://t.co/o1YuEcRyyg .@nickgillespie talks often of the way the internet and social media have given a voice to all sorts" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1782264026715619781) 2024-04-22T04:23Z 11K followers, [---] engagements "A great list of luxuries that matter for quality of life. And I realize I know of no one who cares about trad luxuries as in status branded goods such as clothes cars etc. When I think luxury brands I think Real Housewives of New Jersey. Here's a checklist of [--] modern luxuries for entrepreneurs and creators aiming to live well in 2024: How many do you check off [--]. A+ headphones A+ coffee/tea A+ laptop [--]. 1+ project that brings in $2k+/month relatively passively [--]. International airport within [--] minutes https://t.co/DUCqDSuDDA Here's a checklist of [--] modern luxuries for entrepreneurs and" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1784258204655915435) 2024-04-27T16:28Z 11K followers, [---] engagements "Adrian Fenty former DC mayor who appointed Michelle Rhee "Our party is terrible on education which means were terrible on poor people. And because thats the only thing thats going to be a solution." https://pioneerinstitute.org/learning-curve/former-d-c-mayor-adrian-fenty-on-school-reform https://pioneerinstitute.org/learning-curve/former-d-c-mayor-adrian-fenty-on-school-reform" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1784268789540155779) 2024-04-27T17:10Z 11K followers, [---] engagements "Get your child out if they are falling off the engagement cliff In elementary school 76% of students are engaged at school. By high school that is 44% (in the data below- Ive seen more recent data putting it at 33%). If your child is not engaged at school they are more likely to develop a range of toxic habits. If your child is losing interest in school find another program that is more successful at engaging them ASAP. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/170525/school-cliff-student-engagement-drops-school-year.aspx" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1785023616310038570) 2024-04-29T19:09Z 11K followers, [----] engagements "@ninapaley @heterodorx Visible" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1785023750372508020) 2024-04-29T19:10Z 11K followers, [--] engagements "See passage below where Harris argues that private choice will result in education that prioritizes career building and social networks rather than civic virtues. But if that is the case we would not expect to see private schools resulting in more civic virtues than public (unless you want to argue that these students would be even MORE civically minded had they remained in public schools which strikes me as far-fetched)" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1785131885414232289) 2024-04-30T02:19Z 11K followers, [--] engagements "The system is dying because it is irrelevant to students lives. A new report from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation surveyed more than [----] Gen Z students between the ages of [--] to [--] finding that less than half enrolled in middle or high school felt motivated to go to school. Grant young people more agency to direct their own lives and learning and they will find their purpose and their motivation. https://t.co/MSlwvov7sX Grant young people more agency to direct their own lives and learning and they will find their purpose and their motivation. https://t.co/MSlwvov7sX" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1785660663701909822) 2024-05-01T13:20Z 11K followers, [----] engagements "While I fully support @JonHaidt s work the next frontier is for him to explore the role of schooling in adolescent depression and suicide. See data below 1980-2019. Under 14s have the most dramatic relief when out of school but 15-18 pattern is similar. Note that after [--] this pattern vanishes - graduating out of the suicide factory. Look what happens to suicide rates for children under [--] when they get a summer and Christmas break. It's important we start asking why these young children would rather kill themselves than go to school. https://t.co/DB2ZicaBM4 Look what happens to suicide rates" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1786530687824113982) 2024-05-03T22:58Z 11K followers, [----] engagements "As a parent and as an educator Im acutely aware of the danger of digital addictions for all children. Ive certainly known many boys with video game addictions some of whom successfully overcame their addictions and were glad to do so. So in homes and schools Im all for restricting technology access or at least guiding it and monitoring it to minimize harms and maximize benefits. Certainly Ive known kids for whom Minecraft has been immensely positive. But I would never allow unrestricted internet access for young people. The early porn alone is horrifying" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1786556653875102028) 2024-05-04T00:41Z 11K followers, [--] engagements "@robinhanson s prediction markets @bryan_caplan s reputational bets and @PTetlock s super forecasters are the most viable direction. Mainstream academic credentialing systems outside of STEM are completely unmoored from empirical reality - and @skdh shows that even physics is problematic" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1786870857656156336) 2024-05-04T21:29Z 11K followers, [----] engagements "When I learned public choice theory in the 1980s I concluded that it was almost inexorable that special interests would win in large heterogeneous democracies. I was depressed for [--] years. Now Im focused on new jurisdictions and competitive governance. That said there are occasional wins for deregulation such as airline and trucking in the 70s YIMBY and ESA wins today. Competition among governments is the real win. As capital and talent flee CA and NY to go to TX and FL gradually the pain in those states may force change. The big win is Bitcoin - when Bitcoin hits $100k more than half the" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1788030638596956191) 2024-05-08T02:18Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements "Was browsing the student Slack channel at @socraticexp and found that this student post had [--] replies: random thought and I was wondering about others thoughts on this: A human achieving perfection is inherently paradoxical due to being a state of which no improvement or change can happen after it being achieved humans ability to change grow and self improvement will also reach perfection creating a paradox. Thoughts everyone" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1788338160860049754) 2024-05-08T22:40Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements "Thomas Jeffersons original vision was of small community schools managed by parents with scholarships for those who couldnt afford tuition. Horace Manns Prussian state-led version was alien to the founders. The 20th century saw massive centralization from more than [------] districts in [----] to fewer than [-----] in [----]. Gradually layers and layers of bureaucracy and union rules dramatically constrained teacher and principal autonomy. There are still good people doing good things there but as a system it is dying" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1788382320006685156) 2024-05-09T01:35Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements "My wife @magattew appears in this film She Rises Up which premiers in NYC on June 21st. Go to the website to see when it will appear in your city or to request a screening. It is the inspiring story of three women entrepreneurs (Magatte in Senegal others in Sri Lanka and Peru) working to create jobs in their nations" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1789283884817146015) 2024-05-11T13:18Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements "@Nemo_o @magattew When Hong Kong took off in the 1960s guv Ed existed but was neither free nor compulsory and fewer than 8% of students attended high school. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48604088.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48604088.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1789730655279993036) 2024-05-12T18:53Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements "Similarly in [----] when the US had already been the fastest growing economy for several decades only about 40% of students got to 8th grade and fewer than 10% were in high school. In [----] when we were taking off fewer than 20% got to 8th grade. Most nations that achieved prosperity did so with remarkably little education in the early stages" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1789731997897695550) 2024-05-12T18:58Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements "@Nemo_o @magattew Hong Kong GDP per capita increased from about $100 in [----] to almost $50k today (in current US dollars). Average GDP per capita tends to correspond to wage growth (except in resource dependent economies which HK is not). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CDlocations=HK-XN https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CDlocations=HK-XN" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1789759503895818549) 2024-05-12T20:48Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements "@freedom_usa__ has a real reason to be furious at the system: Jenny was released from a 27-day jail sentence in June of 2023.Her violation Taking her child with special needs out of a bad educational environment and moving him to homeschool as permitted by law. And Jenny is not your average parent: she is especially qualified to do so with her bachelors degree in education and masters degree in special education and early Intervention.How could this happen https://broadandliberty.com/2024/01/16/sharon-sedlar-a-homeschool-injustice-in-allegheny-county/ THIS IS WHY I WAS WILLING TO GO TO JAIL -" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1791485467810271438) 2024-05-17T15:06Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements "The history of 20th century communism is so horrific and bizarre and the fact that most 20th century intellectuals supported it makes the whole history even stranger. As James Bennett suggests someday well all have a morbid curiosity about how this could have happened. I already do. Kronstadt "Rebellion" soviet naval infantry that participated in the Russian Revolution credited as one of the big reasons the revolution won Kronstadt's notice all the promises the communists made aren't happening send an organized letter complaining the communists send https://t.co/UHCMU0bvU6 Kronstadt" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1792383784635044044) 2024-05-20T02:36Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements "@JonHaidt has mentioned schooling a bit. While I completely support Twenge and Haidts social media hypothesis the next frontier is a focus on how meaninglessness and alienating school is for most students. 75% of high school students are unhappy at school 66% are not engaged. It is a moral social and emotional catastrophe - and it doesnt have to be this way" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1793309323310858676) 2024-05-22T15:53Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements "I completely agree. Cultural homogeneity is a much bigger factor in the alleged success of many public school systems than most people realize. When people point to Finland as a successful example of public education I point out that Finland is the most ethnically homogeneous nation in Europe-with a population smaller than Houston" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1794759853648322643) 2024-05-26T15:57Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements "The quote is from a comment at @slatestarcodex not mine. But Ive created intellectually vibrant secondary schools for decades and have no difficulty getting intellectually curious people. Providing them with significant autonomy is part of the solution for sure. But I get well educated people spontaneously sending inbound applications to teach at @socraticexp unsolicited several times per month" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1794763267866304643) 2024-05-26T16:11Z 11.6K followers, 11K engagements "I have someone a huge raise today because they consistently take initiative to solve problems. In most startups there are so many things that need fixing that employees who proactively identify what the problems are and who take the initiative to solve them are invaluable. Grades Test scores Credentials Blah blah blah. Irrelevant. Show me people who can get shit done. This is a parable for how perfectly irrelevant standard schooling is" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1798588928796336349) 2024-06-06T05:33Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements "Im a big advocate of self paced math because many kids can easily learn [--] years of math per year some kids much more. And of course readers should be allowed to read voraciously instead of slogging through school. This was obvious to me as a kid in the 60s and 70s. It has been obvious to me as an educator for nearly [--] years. It is flabbergasting that it is not yet obvious to everyone. Galaxy brain: dividing students into strict age groups with 1-year-wide buckets is not the right option for kids Galaxy brain: dividing students into strict age groups with 1-year-wide buckets is not the right" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1799117015392678170) 2024-06-07T16:31Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements "@dissidentvibes Much better than school for most kids. I expect also interesting conversations and lots of other cool experiences but that may be the water in which you swim so much that it is invisible" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1799174857805971720) 2024-06-07T20:21Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "Sadly Im not the least bit surprised by the fact that younger children in a cohort are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and autism. Yes it is very worrying. But I regard our entire education establishment as very worrying. Most people take the entire system for granted and thus dont bring such a critical eye to the entire system. This is a very worrying finding which needs follow up and if confirmed urgent policy revision. #SummerBirthdays https://t.co/OqHcwjNOi6 https://t.co/f8B01ivFQF This is a very worrying finding which needs follow up and if confirmed urgent policy revision." [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1799876294504591366) 2024-06-09T18:48Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements "Nations that are most interested in entrepreneurial governance are often marginal nations eager to leapfrog with respect to technology. No zones involved in this project but Bhutan has been interested in zones and may yet become an interesting player in the competitive governance market. Pretty wild https://t.co/AUepT551GT Pretty wild https://t.co/AUepT551GT" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1801826352108069323) 2024-06-15T03:57Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements "@geoffreydgraham I like the coinage crapitalism (a contraction of crony capitalism) by @GeneSohoForum . We are for capitalism not crapitalism" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1802373303799026103) 2024-06-16T16:10Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "TikTok regards this as offensive content. When you run an ad standing up for women and girls' sports you get banned for life from @tiktok_us. Here's the ad. Offensive right 🙃 https://t.co/ZN8uS0au1W When you run an ad standing up for women and girls' sports you get banned for life from @tiktok_us. Here's the ad. Offensive right 🙃 https://t.co/ZN8uS0au1W" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1803223331149160912) 2024-06-19T00:28Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements "Congrats @FlowTap1 It is important to document the public benefits of private education especially in light of the eternal myth that government schools provide any kind of effective civic education. Am thrilled with the impact of our study The Public Purposes of Private Education. Released a mere [--] months ago it already sports over [----] unique accesses which ranks 863rd of over 300k articles tracked by Altmetric (Top 0.25%) @LarsonPR #SchoolChoice https://t.co/bvBxYrMHOq Am thrilled with the impact of our study The Public Purposes of Private Education. Released a mere [--] months ago it already" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1803583016847003958) 2024-06-20T00:17Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements "The number of special economic zones have increased from a few dozens in the 70s to thousands today. Chinese SEZs brought a billion people from poor to middle class. Dubai pioneered a new jurisdiction that allowed it to become a top ten financial center within a sharia law nation. Perhaps you are simply interested in recreational insults but I like to presume a commitment to evidence and rationality even among those whose first impulse is to insult without understanding what they are talking about" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1804189620495667456) 2024-06-21T16:28Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "@aejochim @jandrewclark @AaronGarthSmith @AZBethLewis @NealMcCluskey We also have ample empirical and historical evidence that incumbents use regulations to raise barriers to entry and thus prevent competition and innovation" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1804653798281163123) 2024-06-22T23:12Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "@aejochim @jandrewclark @AaronGarthSmith @AZBethLewis @NealMcCluskey Why is leaving a program ipso facto problematic I expect the more common choice becomes the more frequently well see people changing programs" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1804655547213607266) 2024-06-22T23:19Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "Im open to basic health and safety regulations but almost anything that constrains what counts as education usually locks in the status quo. Ive seen many students whose confidence had been so damaged by schooling (sometimes to the point of suicidal ideation on a daily basis) that they needed to take a year or two off from standard academics to recover. I see standard education (public and private) as a public health catastrophe. We need to allow families to follow non traditional pathways as needed" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1804658260651184442) 2024-06-22T23:30Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "This is not at all surprising. And I explained expect that many students who develop interest and motivation engage in more substantive activities with sustained focus. Ive certainly known students with no ability to focus on math spending hours with amazing focus building worlds in Minecraft sometimes including coding. This study led by University of Central Florida found that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms manifest watching videos requiring executive brain function. https://t.co/fnVTzBi5Bg This study led by University of Central Florida found that Attention Deficit" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1805027877710115123) 2024-06-23T23:59Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements "Hi Ashley You ask how do we create better systems for children A few things: [--]. Im all in favor of daily math practice year round and memorization of times tables along with fluency in calculation more generally. That said there are much better ways to do math. When my son was in elementary school he took math classes with IMACS based on CSMP fun game like activities that develop fluency and conceptual thinking. As an adult data scientist now responsible for optimizing the largest server farm in the world he regards it as one of the best mathematical training experiences in his life. [--]. My" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1806153739109073292) 2024-06-27T02:33Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements "Not crazy at all. Hayek-Popper-Polanyi open doors into a much larger world in the humanities and social sciences. And New Institutional Economics is already integrated with the study of law governance and culture and should be more so. Conversely Stiglitz seems to be evidence that a mathematical economist is not very good at reading" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1806433458295541792) 2024-06-27T21:04Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements "Perhaps you didnt read The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization but it is perfectly clear that he sees incremental innovation as frequent and dispersed in an unpredictable manner. It is an epistemological argument. The few are not any kind of elite in any traditional sense. They are those occasional entrepreneurs who eventually have significant impact by means of providing consumers with valuable goods and services. But we should above all provide the maximum of opportunity for unknown individuals to learn facts of which we are yet unaware and opportunity to use this knowledge in their" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1807476157127721187) 2024-06-30T18:07Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "@robinhanson and @PTetlock should share a Nobel prize in econ for their work in developing prediction markets and forecasting as an alternative source of epistemological validity. Academic peer review and associated prestige metrics currently remain the mainstream gold standard for epistemological validity even though they are an inconsistent filter for truth at best and often irrelevant or even inconsistent with truth seeking. By contrast the continued improvements in prediction markets and forecasting platforms have created incentive systems entirely focused on predicting the future as" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1809684601784476111) 2024-07-06T20:23Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements "@itsemileeharper @goslee_aaron That was a review. This is Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Tree-Personal-Educating-Themselves/dp/1939709121 https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Tree-Personal-Educating-Themselves/dp/1939709121" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1809962486201716969) 2024-07-07T14:47Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "Seeing like a state was both a great book as well as a key conceptual lens that should be used more broadly. The state needs people to be legible visible and available for state management. The catastrophe of government schooling is an example of seeing like a state instead of seeing children as human beings. . passed away on July [--]. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.👇 https://t.co/FjFUd68Gts . passed away" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1815114353840144550) 2024-07-21T19:59Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements "@joequirkexults s book is great well worth the read. Many of the technologies that were speculative when the book was published are now at various stages of development. https://t.co/oIOLovGCcD https://t.co/5VbHNnU0Z6 https://t.co/oIOLovGCcD https://t.co/5VbHNnU0Z6" [X Link](https://x.com/flowidealism/status/1815486451896987841) 2024-07-22T20:37Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Ive seen so many people excited about innovating in education w/o awareness of these obstacles. From an innovators perspective most of k12 is such garbage that it seems like an obvious market to disrupt. And yes at some point it will happen. But these obstacles are real"
X Link 2023-06-29T23:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Good thread on obstacles to innovating in education. At small scale it is easy to produce much better results than standard k12 - most time is wasted in school + many of us have learned X at 5x 10x 50x etc. relative to school learning. Scale is tough alignment critical"
X Link 2023-06-29T23:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"We reflect on her writing process the extent to which she plans or not the extent to which she thinks about her writing when she is not writing etc. Another example of how we can "love a mind" by giving her thoughts our attention and respect"
X Link 2023-07-10T04:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Follow @1517fund to learn about amazing teens and to be inspired by what teens can do today - and they are also a VC fund that invests in teen entrepreneurs. Follow and share w motivated teens who are done with conventional schooling. There is a better way forward for teens"
X Link 2023-07-30T14:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The homeschool market is rapidly becoming more sophisticated with diverse learning pods a la carte offerings (@socraticexp offers a la carte offerings for homeschoolers) microschools developed tutoring markets cool materials etc. It is no longer isolated individuals"
X Link 2023-08-04T23:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Given how easy it is to get people to love learning when it is voluntary I expect compulsory schooling has reduced the extent to which our population is educated. If listening to music or watching video chosen by government was mandatory for [--] years people would hate it"
X Link 2023-08-10T02:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Many famous people hated school - for those who are curious it is excruciatingly painful to have someone else control your attention [--] hours/day. When I reflect on the intellectual adventures I have every day the thought of sitting thru school is torture - the reality worse"
X Link 2023-08-12T22:46Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I keep wondering when parents will wake up to the fact that standard schooling is a significant risk factor for self-harm"
X Link 2023-08-16T13:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Instead of school - [--] hrs/day of engaging convos on wide range of topics + cool digital skill electives entrepreneurial + creative projects personalized math w tutors + 1:1 mentoring. No lectures no memorizing no tests except [--] self-paced math tests or opt in trad courses"
X Link 2023-08-22T18:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@_EnrichedHQ Read below. Schooling is an inhumane experience for most adolescents that leads to or exacerbates the mental health crisis. Meanwhile it does so while forcing kids to do mostly useless activities. Read @educatedandfree for more on the fraudulent aspect"
X Link 2023-08-27T13:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Ive been working with entrepreneurial teens for decades. The Thiel Fellowship is tremendous validation for the fact that teens dont need to wait for schooling to be over to create a meaningful life. When teens are engaged in meaningful work they are healthier + happier. 1/3"
X Link 2023-09-05T00:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Diego talked his way into an internship w the architect at @ProsperaGlobal . @socraticexp was able to give him a semester of high school credit for the internship which was an amazing experience. He is now back with us having a blast designing an education that works [--] him"
X Link 2023-09-05T19:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Middle school is a crucial period. Many happy optimistic children become depressed alienated miserable teens. Parents should do whatever it takes to prevent their children from going down hill in middle school. Pull them out of a toxic enviro before the damage is permanent"
X Link 2023-09-06T21:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Serjhunt_ARK @joaolmateus @zeldapoem this is how we need to think about blasting education based on cultures of student agency and autodidactism into the stratosphere"
X Link 2023-09-07T16:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@JessieTweeting In 19th century Britain liberal arts Ed was norm before guv schooling took over: Arnolds Rugby school: The Socratic Method promoted in his school challenged students to think critically about the questions asked a method which opposed rote learning"
X Link 2023-09-09T17:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@EdHerdman @AgnesCallard Immensely. Most academics are unaware that Africa is most heavily regulated region on earth and that the lack of a decent business environment is why they are poor. Mauritius + Rwanda increased economic freedom now former is middle income latter is growing rapidly. @magattew"
X Link 2023-09-17T22:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Diego went to @ProsperaGlobal where he talked himself into an internship with their chief architect. He learned professional software tools and worked on real world projects while spending part of the year on the beautiful Caribbean island of Roatan. Now going to college early"
X Link 2023-10-05T16:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@diwan_vinod @DinaPomeranz @OlaRosling Rosling was a fabulous advocate for this information for sure. But his Ignorance Project documented just how stunningly ignorant people are about these basic facts. Here in [----] only 12% of college graduates were aware of the dramatic decline in poverty"
X Link 2023-10-05T17:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@diwan_vinod @DinaPomeranz @OlaRosling Very sad if it is European psyche that thinks that way. In US I attribute it more to anti-capitalist academics. I would not be surprised if professors outside econ were even more ignorant- there are still Marxists who believe rich get richer poor get poorer under capitalism"
X Link 2023-10-05T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@shenandoah on his technique for unschooling- see link below in an interview. Daughter Laura got into MIT at [--] w no conventional schooling at all now is a leading anti-aging VC in her 20s"
X Link 2023-10-05T20:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I completely agree with this- and very few trad school experiences can compete with the value of reading. My simple homeschooling recipe for grades 4-7: 30-60 minutes of math daily plus 3-6 hours of reading. A student who is an avid reader has an immense advantage over others"
X Link 2023-10-06T18:32Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements
"Even in the 1990s when I was working in public school classrooms outside the honors track the dominant vibe was of deep malaise boredom and disengagement in most high school classes. It has only gotten worse. Check out YouTube for school sucks to hear their voices"
X Link 2023-10-10T17:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@DylanWu Agreed. Id really like to see a larger social media movement of young people talking about alternatives approaches to learning and education. There are several here who do so including @LearningToan and @zeldapoem. We need thousands more"
X Link 2023-10-10T21:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Our students love our program because they love to engage in conversation. Our students enjoy 2-4 hours of intellectual dialogue every day. Some come from homes where it is familiar to think about ideas. For others it is new but they soon love the experience of thinking"
X Link 2023-10-11T13:44Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@DylanWu Big time. I wrote my book after leading Socratic Seminars in public schools. It felt like I was liberating prisoners. Most were so eager to discuss ideas. It turns out that there are various strategies needed for this to work consistently; thus the book"
X Link 2023-10-11T16:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@mualphaxi As of [----] NLG was still defending North Korea still believing it as a legitimate attempt at socialist utopia long after everyone else knew N Korea was bonkers. It is unfair to The Federalist Society to compare them to NLG which is totally nuts:"
X Link 2023-10-12T21:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And @zeldapoem high school dropout is doing a great job developing a school @magattew and I have in Senegal while also teaching an elective class at @socraticexp on Becoming an Adult. She has solved several problems in our African program in the last [--] months. Initiative"
X Link 2023-10-12T22:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"At @socraticexp students spend 2-4 hours per day in intellectual dialogue meaningful conversations about things that matter to them. They love it - we have solved the high school engagement problem (66% of HS students are not engaged). Weve measured it using @ImmersionNeuro "
X Link 2023-10-13T14:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@momadvocate04 @joshcowenMSU Im not simplifying it as you claim. I run a virtual private school that attracts many students both w learning differences + often mental health challenges we are one of many options eager to attract students that dont flourish elsewhere. Microschools are often great options"
X Link 2023-10-14T02:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@momadvocate04 @joshcowenMSU If a child is at risk - due to mental health challenges gang recruitment bullying etc. + new enviro solves the issue the school is better full stop. If a child is at risk test scores dont matter. I want Josh + other ideological opponents of choice to acknowledge this"
X Link 2023-10-14T02:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@joshcowenMSU Dramatically reducing the public-school-to-prison-pipeline is a catastrophic outcome Specifically exposure to the MPCP is associated with a reduction of around [--] percent in drug convictions [--] percent in property damage convictions and [--] percent in paternity suits"
X Link 2023-10-16T15:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"We need to consider that conventional schooling may be a serious risk factor for the wellbeing of millions of children. Sadly the risk includes suicide. On many Mondays during the school year the risk of teen suicide is nearly 2x of the risk in July a pattern that stops on grad"
X Link 2023-10-17T18:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It is important that educators not be emotionally reactive. I was once on the board of an altschool that had an award winning science teacher who even after much coaching would snap at kids when angry. I recommended that she be fired as it destroyed the learning environment"
X Link 2023-10-20T18:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@DylanWu Except for students who want more - math is tremendously valuable for a wide range of work. But math should not be FORCED on students beyond what you suggest"
X Link 2023-10-23T18:44Z 12.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@joshcowenMSU If the students who remain in public schools are more likely to die of suicide or to suffer from mental illness or fall into the school to prison pipeline then public school is the catastrophic path. Josh are you willing to bet on non-cognitive ESA outcomes such as these"
X Link 2023-10-29T13:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I have never been as bored as an adult as I was in secondary school. Life is incredibly fast moving dynamic and exciting. The only thing as an adult which is as remotely as dull as school is the DMV. I think of schooling as forcing kids to wait in the DMV for a decade or so"
X Link 2023-10-30T16:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In addition to the high profile @thielfellowship winners there are thousands of teens who create smaller businesses or go directly to work for startups without college. Skills and entrepreneurial initiative are more important than credentials in the digital economy"
X Link 2023-10-31T12:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Ed_Realist If kids are not unhappy w their current public schools then given choice they will stay there. Opponents of choice implicitly acknowledge that public schools will lose market share - because customers are unhappy. If they were satisfied there is no reason to oppose choice"
X Link 2023-11-03T23:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Every parent should have access to funding for their children to learn in an environment in which they flourish. Whether it is homeschooling virtual schooling learning pods micro schools etc. parents have more options than ever once they have access to the funding"
X Link 2023-11-07T20:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The parent said employees of the school district had visited the familys home and rifled through clothing. That was just one of [---] home visits the school district executed over the past five years and one of roughly [----] residency investigations it conducted in that period. Awful to see school districts doubling-down on educational red-lining instead of opening their doors to #schoolchoice St. Louis-area school district aggressively audits student housing citing educational larceny https://t.co/lRYNjJ3KOi Awful to see school districts doubling-down on educational red-lining instead of"
X Link 2023-11-07T23:57Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Soon [--] million children will be able to escape the system if they need to do so. Insofar as the system contributes to a wide range of adolescent challenges this represents an immense opportunity for the next generation. They can escape bullying abuse meaninglessness etc"
X Link 2023-11-08T15:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Scolianormative expectations pathologize millions of healthy innocent children. Parents and students alike are told that children have various problems that they do not have outside of schooling and would not have if they were free to make their own choices every day instead"
X Link 2023-11-10T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Millions of children having better lives. 🎶 The best is yet to come and wont it be fine You think youve seen the sun but you aint seen it shine 🎶 @lindseymburke @JasonBedrick @DeAngelisCorey @jaypgreene https://t.co/QaN4cLamG4 🎶 The best is yet to come and wont it be fine You think youve seen the sun but you aint seen it shine 🎶 @lindseymburke @JasonBedrick @DeAngelisCorey @jaypgreene https://t.co/QaN4cLamG4"
X Link 2023-11-17T22:08Z 12.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Kudos to @IanVRowe for his forthright advocacy of strategies that change lives - while simultaneously building charter schools that exemplify his advocacy. This is what a hero looks like"
X Link 2023-11-19T20:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Im constantly approached by ppl w new ways of learning: games apps dyslexia soft skills math etc. What most Ed innovators discover is ALL mainstream cares about are mainstream standards/assess. No matter how great your innovation is if it is not focused on that it is dead"
X Link 2023-11-20T05:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Beyond Political Tribalisms: Inventing New Political Tropes What if we need new conceptual understandings and categories to improve the human condition but our evolved cognitive structures kept us mostly stuck in obsolete coalitional holding patterns"
X Link 2023-11-20T16:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ted_agon Switzerland is the most decentralized nation. The largest canton is about the size of San Antonio. Sweden has one of the most free market ed systems. More relevantly culture is a leading factor in socioeconomic outcomes-for instance Japanese Am make about 30% more than ave US"
X Link 2023-11-23T02:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ted_agon Immigrants from those countries do as well/better in US as they do in home countries. Culture+ genetic background have a much bigger impact on ed outcomes than does any schooling process at scale. There may be small programs that transcend these influences but not guv systems"
X Link 2023-11-23T13:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"reading for pleasure in early childhood was linked w better scores on comprehensive cognition assessments +better educational attainment in young adolescence. It was also associated w fewer mental health problems +less time spent on electronic devices"
X Link 2023-11-25T14:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A great piece by @educatedandfree especially useful for articulating why school is a mental health disaster for children and how hopeless it is to try to change the system"
X Link 2023-11-25T19:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@daedaluslearn Many schools might wish their math classes to be taught by math majors and their physics classes by physics majors. If so the key is to stop paying the math and physics teachers the same as the gym teacher"
X Link 2023-11-26T21:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@revtatum You are heroic for your relentless focus on improving the lives of young people"
X Link 2023-11-27T16:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@magattew +I stopped by @AmityAge Bitcoin education center at @Prosperahn yesterday while also seeing the @guidepostschool the award winning Duna Tower and other community features. All amazing. Visit Prospera if you get a chance. Follow @NiklasAnzinger for cool events there"
X Link 2023-11-29T23:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In Purpose class today at @socraticexp we discussed What do you love about how you see the world (Mondays are always a variation on What do you love) Initially it was a difficult question for them but by end of class each one had come up w a thoughtful + honest response"
X Link 2023-12-05T00:16Z 12.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@DylanWu @socraticexp Good for you. I enjoyed our call will circle back around in a few weeks"
X Link 2023-12-05T01:19Z 12.2K followers, [--] engagements
"This child went on to attend Harvard and is happy and well adjusted - BECAUSE he was pulled from public school: Our son started dry heaving on Sunday nights in the second grade. Thats when we opted to homeschool. The mom suffered considerable social disapproval at the time"
X Link 2023-12-05T02:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@NumbersMan65 @joshcowenMSU @hechingerreport Certainly I support a ban on funding schools that advocate initiation of force + it is important that Christianity has mostly been tamed by Enlightenment. But between barbaric medieval Christianity on the one hand + protective impact of religion on wellbeing is a lot of space"
X Link 2023-12-05T18:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@nataliehastings @NumbersMan65 @joshcowenMSU @hechingerreport Do you believe that increased fervor has a relevant relationship to the stated outcomes If so do you believe they improve stated outcomes or not Why Im honestly not sure how fervor would be relevant to these findings"
X Link 2023-12-05T23:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"One of the schools I created was for highly gifted students. We had middle school students taking and passing AP exams. The Elements of Math program at IMACS we used had students entering Harvard at level of 3rd year math majors. School slows down a significant % of students"
X Link 2023-12-07T15:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@HippyMomPhD @stjohnscollege These are MUCH better when read and discussed together. Many of these are not easy by a long shot. There are many unfamiliar concepts and notations. If you get into it and want a slimmed down greatest hits version Id be happy to discuss my perspective"
X Link 2023-12-09T23:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In a [----] survey conducted by Samuel Abrams and Next Gen Politics 60% of high school students in New York City said they wouldnt offer their opinions in class because of concerns about how others would respond"
X Link 2023-12-10T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Thiel Fellowship is one of the most original and important philanthropic projects of the 21st century. Congrats to @William_Blake and @DStrachman founders for picking so many great teen entrepreneurs from the very beginning"
X Link 2023-12-13T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@UPuritano A year in Costa Rica much cheaper than a year in US. One still must be free from other family commitments + be able to work virtually so not an option for everyone. That said with ESA legislation in some states ($15k+ per kid) it could become possible even w/o virtual work"
X Link 2023-12-13T03:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Ive long believed that dialogue w children is a powerful way of developing childrens minds (see my Socratic Michael Strong YouTube channel). This does not go that far but is compelling evidence that children hearing adult talk talk more -regardless of socioeconomic status"
X Link 2023-12-14T02:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@TuurDemeester The Monbiot allegations are based on an absolute garbage article on @AtlasNetwork published by @TheNewRepublic. One of their criticisms was that Atlas was against Hugo Chavez. @magattew responded here"
X Link 2023-12-23T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MrTaylorMaths2 @ColbyLyons31742 Ive spent most of past [--] years in SF and Austin. Almost all of the young people launching great careers with startups are self-starters who are driving their own education +careers. See @1517fund for the leading VC fund investing in teen entrepreneurs read their manifesto"
X Link 2023-12-27T00:36Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Ivan Illich John Holt and John Taylor Gatto are all making a fundamentally moral/spiritual argument about the harms of conventional schooling. For many of us once we have seen these harms they cant be unseen. But for many the exact same process of schooling seems benign. It cannot be said too often or too strongly that what is most wrong with (schools) is not technical but moral not a matter of methods but of purposes not of means but of ends. - John Holt Instead of Education It cannot be said too often or too strongly that what is most wrong with (schools) is not technical but moral not a"
X Link 2023-12-28T20:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A Practical Approach to an Idealistic New Social Vision: Why we need to legalize markets in happiness and well-being My latest Substack post:"
X Link 2024-01-02T01:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SFulton24 I completely agree. I like the expression Layers of reasons and suspect that the issue goes much more deeply than most realize. Ultimately I see school choice as the most effective means of addressing the adolescent mental health crisis"
X Link 2024-01-02T21:49Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Ive worked w school refusers. This thread provides insight into their experiential reality. Given a healthier learning environment school refusers flourish. I had one who was out of school for [--] years then went on to a top [--] liberal arts college. Another coded for @SpaceX . Ive been talking to young people who have struggled with school attendance. Sometimes called school refusers or phobics or those with emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA). Heres what Ive learnt. 1/ Ive been talking to young people who have struggled with school attendance. Sometimes called school refusers or phobics"
X Link 2024-01-02T22:49Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Just like cell phones broke land lines. I havent had a land line since 1990s. I quit with conventional schools about same time. Now most of entrepreneurs I know are also leaving them behind. The future consists of high agency learning. Now for elites in the future for all"
X Link 2024-01-04T18:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@CovingtonEDU @eduwonkette_jen By means of homeschooling virtual schooling learning pods microschools educational networks national chains new Ed entrepreneurs etc. supply will grow to meet demand. This is an exceptionally dynamic space in AZ and FL thanks to choice programs. Proliferating options"
X Link 2024-01-04T18:39Z 11.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@CovingtonEDU @DenisaCasement @eduwonkette_jen It takes time for diff models to be adopted by diff demographics. That is normal. I come from the working class. Most working class people are inclined towards trad Ed. But as choice becomes normalized across all demographics choices (and options) will become more sophisticated"
X Link 2024-01-05T00:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen I have high net worth tech entrepreneurs sending their kids to the $12k version of my school. I have low income AZ families getting the full experience for $7500. We also have scholarship students from Pakistan and Senegal. We have an extraordinary range of socioeconomic status"
X Link 2024-01-05T23:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TtstcBitchcakes @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Are you denying that an upscale segment is moving towards more agency based models of private education Or that these models will gradually become lower cost and higher quality What is the specific empirical premise you deny"
X Link 2024-01-06T00:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@soccercoachlori @AdonicaSS @eduwonkette_jen @socraticexp Im all for providing a level playing field for all schools public and private. And in order to serve kids best we need to minimize regulatory requirements. Ive had the best results with kids with significant learning challenges when I can give them a break from academics"
X Link 2024-01-06T01:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen I cant solve all the problems all the time. I have been involved in transpartisan movements working to reign in extremists including conservatives in TX. I see school choice as a higher moral priority than trying to stop a particular crazy. Plus I believe it will reduce crazy"
X Link 2024-01-06T02:13Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@DenisaCasement @AdonicaSS @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen 75% of American high school students are unhappy at school 66% are not engaged in learning suicide rates go up during the school year etc. The notion that kids are okay at school as it is not even selective fluff"
X Link 2024-01-06T02:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Ive created innovative schools based on Montessori and Socratic principles in AK FL CA NM NY MO and TX. Most upscale liberal parents love these programs. My target market is largely the same as the Montessori/Whole Foods Market/NPR demographic. Im not a TX Republican"
X Link 2024-01-07T00:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen There are certainly many factors erosion of social capital/community among them. But if parents had been able to choose since the beginning they would have chosen healthier environments as the cultural erosion hit. FYI material standards have dramatically improved since 1960"
X Link 2024-01-07T00:25Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Public schools have 3x funding since [----]. US is among highest per capita spending on K12 in OECD. Utah spends least yet has highest rates of social mobility in US. Choice will benefit lowest income most by providing access to relevant social capital"
X Link 2024-01-07T00:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Alana and I deciphering a paragraph on "Scientific Objectivity" from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The goal is to learn to work to understand difficult abstract prose (+ incidentally to begin to introduce her to the concept at hand)"
X Link 2024-01-07T17:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen See Hispanic Health Paradox the fact that recent Hispanic immigrants have better health outcomes which gradually disappear applies to mental health as well. US teen culture is toxic. There is a large study showing the greater the exposure to US culture higher suicide rates"
X Link 2024-01-08T15:47Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@soccercoachlori @joshsteimle @eduwonkette_jen There is an entire generation of kids creating great careers for themselves outside the system. Teens learn software development UI/UX digital marketing video production social media marketing etc. + go on to fabulous lives w/o college digital nomads traveling the world"
X Link 2024-01-09T17:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AdonicaSS @DenisaCasement @t2meg @eduwonkette_jen Another uninformed fact free comment. Our student population includes African-American Latin-American Asian-American Muslim-American as well as students from Pakistan Senegal Kenya Mexico Panama Iraq Chile etc. We have an exceptionally diverse student population"
X Link 2024-01-09T17:38Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@AdonicaSS @soccercoachlori @eduwonkette_jen @socraticexp For people interested in such careers Im all for world class test performance. For those interested in other paths where tests are irrelevant why waste time FYI 93% of freelancers say skills are more important than degrees many creatives here"
X Link 2024-01-09T18:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@soccercoachlori @joshsteimle @eduwonkette_jen I trys parents to choose what is valuable for their children over opaque and dysfunctional bureaucracies. When one adds the human damage from conventional schooling including mental health suicide gang recruitment public school to prison pipeline etc. it is a no brainer"
X Link 2024-01-09T18:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The radicalization of @NateSilver538 in recent years is one of the most encouraging signs of intellectual vibrancy among high profile public intellectuals out there. He used to be the very symbol of mainstream sensibility. Now he is fed up with mainstream sensibilities. If the experts think that misinformation is a bigger problem than war then a way bigger problem than misinformation is that the experts are fucking idiots. If the experts think that misinformation is a bigger problem than war then a way bigger problem than misinformation is that the experts are fucking idiots"
X Link 2024-01-11T21:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The view from the top floor of The Academy of Thought and Industry in Pacific Heights in SF the Montessori high school model I created"
X Link 2024-01-11T21:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@MamanLunettes What credits were trickier to get Did she really need to go to school One doesnt need a diploma anyway but if one wants one there are online options for everything"
X Link 2024-01-12T01:56Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Hurrah From A Theory of Everyone p.268 https://t.co/1GdTCvnVOt From A Theory of Everyone p.268 https://t.co/1GdTCvnVOt"
X Link 2024-01-12T14:32Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@ConcvCre8Repeat The key is a governance layer that provides a world class business environment in developing nations where such environments are lacking. Beyond that diverse use cases depending on local conditions. Some places manufacturing others digital work etc"
X Link 2024-01-12T15:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@_alice_evans If you havent read Yaloms A history of the wife I recommend it. She credits the commercial Dutch republic with the popular rise of companionate marriage in Europe. There were earlier examples but as a mainstream cultural model it is that recent"
X Link 2024-01-14T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@calebrw @eduwonkette_jen Do you know of anyone defending segregation academies At @socraticexp weve had students from Mexico Panama Chile Iraq Qatar. Egypt Senegal Kenya. Taiwan + Asian Am African Am Hispanic Am Muslim Am many LGBTQ etc. We are more diverse than 95%+ of public schools"
X Link 2024-01-15T22:37Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Shocking in an incredibly good way. I often speak w people who despair about changes in our educational system. With such a high % of parents willing to switch change could happen much more rapidly than anyone imagines. Will we have a fall of the Berlin Wall moment in k12 Last year about half of families considered switching schools. This year that number is more than [--] in [--]. Additionally 64% of parents say they wish they had more information about education options for their children. new poll from @NSCWMedia 👇 https://t.co/pW5BiV6oJx https://t.co/MJg3XsPHVR Last year about half of"
X Link 2024-01-16T23:01Z [--] followers, 13.5K engagements
"Ill be discussing adolescent flourishing in the high agency @AlphaSchoolATX with @mackenzieprice of Alpha next Tuesday. Come join us if youre in Austin Join us Tuesday evening for a discussion on K-12 education with @mackenzieprice and @flowidealism. Well have food games and live music too. Bring your family: https://t.co/3poXVJAB8y https://t.co/SeUAVUHtPr Join us Tuesday evening for a discussion on K-12 education with @mackenzieprice and @flowidealism. Well have food games and live music too. Bring your family: https://t.co/3poXVJAB8y https://t.co/SeUAVUHtPr"
X Link 2024-01-18T00:36Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@CrnchyMama @eduwonkette_jen @GrinchGaaS @Moms4Liberty @BLK_MindsMatter [----] data showing the same thing: Private Homeschooling Charter Public School"
X Link 2024-01-19T19:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@magattew interviews @VitalikButerin on Effective Altruism Prosperity in Africa through Startup Cities and the benefits of crypto in Africa"
X Link 2024-01-20T23:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Upon learning about mixed age classrooms in Montessori I took it as an idiosyncratic element. But then as I saw the dramatic difference that mature older peers can have on younger students I realized how essential it was how powerfully formative positive older children are. People like to emphasize how socialization with peers is important for development. But is age segregated socialization with peers who are being coerced all day really so wonderful I think it often shapes kids very negatively making them confused lost and insecure. People like to emphasize how socialization with peers is"
X Link 2024-01-21T02:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Over the decades Ive known hundreds of children who were anxious depressed suicidal in one learning environment who then became happy + well in a different one. It is abundantly obvious to me that some children who suffer in traditional schooling thrive in other enviros. 3/17"
X Link 2024-01-21T22:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The bigotry from the schooling establishment is that these kids are flawed/marginal losers. Of course I know students who couldnt endure schooling who later went to Harvard +other top unis or autodidacts that dropped out later worked for top corps like Google/Tesla. 4/17"
X Link 2024-01-21T22:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Pediatric suicides increase during the school year. This is a well established seasonal pattern that stops at [--]. Suicide rates are almost 2x during school year on Mondays in Oct Nov Jan vs. July. Why isnt there as much a focus as the campaign against drunk driving 7/17"
X Link 2024-01-21T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Add to that the fact that teen suicides are up about 300% since the 1950s. @JonHaidt and @jean_twenge have appropriately called attention to the more recent role of smartphones in the adolescent mental health epidemic. But kids have not been okay in our society for decades. 8/17"
X Link 2024-01-21T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I know many educators/policy makers believe we have no obligation to make school less unpleasant. They associate positive experiences with a lack of rigor. But note that people willingly choose extremely demanding activities such as CrossFit or martial arts and love them. 12/17"
X Link 2024-01-21T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How to engage students in high rigor activities while also respecting them +providing choice in what they pursue is an important path forward in k12. But ignoring the suffering +time wasted is not the way. Trad schooling is a mental health disaster for some % of students. 13/17"
X Link 2024-01-21T22:10Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements
"I predict that as we have better data we will find that trad schooling plays a significant role in the mental health catastrophe of modernity. W more personalized humane learning environments will we reduce anxiety depression suicides by 10% 50% 90% We dont know. 14/17"
X Link 2024-01-21T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BrianCAlbrecht You represent a passion for the explanatory powers of price theory once a great tradition at Chicago + UCLA. Without being grandiose about it (you are not) situate your work as an important continuation of that tradition. Students have no idea of the import of that legacy"
X Link 2024-01-23T01:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"See post at @LivingFossilsSS on What would Hunter-Gatherers Do As a heuristic for mental health. @BretWeinstein + @HeatherEHeying also here in their book as does ev psychiatry movement is similar. My piece on evolutionary mismatch + mental health"
X Link 2024-01-23T19:35Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@joshcowenMSU Im culturally liberal on these issues (w the exception of no gender affirmations that include surgical or hormonal treatments of minors). Ive been trying to get you to acknowledge the mental health damages from schools forever plus character + wellness benefits of choice"
X Link 2024-01-25T22:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@mormo_music There are a continuum of behaviors described as and diagnosed as ADHD. US prescription rates far exceed those of other nations. The extent to which attention is forced and classroom behavior requires sitting combined w big pharma leads to excessive pathologizing of childhood"
X Link 2024-01-27T12:59Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Kids should be able to go as fast as they can in math. Im in favor of access to either self-paced math or as many tracks as possible. There are easily 20-30% of students who could graduate with several years additional math if allowed. By global standards US math is slow. Important @tomloveless99 article from 2022: "SFUSD embarked on a detracking initiative in [----] followed by an extensive public relations campaign to portray the policy as having successfully narrowed achievement gaps. The campaign omitted assessment data indicating that the Important @tomloveless99 article from 2022: "SFUSD"
X Link 2024-01-28T05:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Hypothesis: Students at large impersonal public middle schools are more likely to be anxious depressed + suicidal than are students at small micro schools with rich relationships. If we could quantify how much better off are students in the latter w respect to mental health"
X Link 2024-01-29T21:06Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@SharellF60221 If we compare the top 20% of positive microschools with the bottom 20% of large impersonal public the difference with respect to mental health and wellbeing is more likely 5-10x. Once we have good data no one will leave their children in lord of the flies social enviros"
X Link 2024-01-31T12:03Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements
"I very much look forward to this conversation with @naomicfisher and @ThoughtStretchr . Im increasingly convinced that the mental health harms from trad Ed are much larger than most realize even if it is only for a subset of the population. My question is about magnitude. Does traditional schooling lead to poor mental health for students We'll discuss that question with @naomicfisher @flowidealism and you Learn more and RSVP for this ThoughtStretchers Education Community event here: https://t.co/pXdjRAJzgb https://t.co/FtID1BRHsb Does traditional schooling lead to poor mental health for"
X Link 2024-02-02T20:35Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"And meanwhile the daily processed food mandated by government would recommend large servings of carbs and minimal servings of fats which we now know leads to a public health catastrophe. Likewise bureaucratic schooling has led to a guv enforced teen mental health catastrophe. Imagine if society was forced to adopt a protocol of the govt giving kids daily processed food until [--]. Imagine it went on for 100+ years & parents grew up with an expectation of that free food. Going back to real food would be called risky experimental & alternative. Imagine if society was forced to adopt a protocol of"
X Link 2024-02-04T16:44Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Im very much looking forward to this conversation on the harmful effects of schooling on mental health on the 25th w @dperkinsed and @naomicfisher tune in if you can or listen afterwards. Thanks to @ThoughtStretchr for hosting it. We have some great online 'events' coming up with folks like @naomicfisher @flowidealism @RonRitchhart @Brigitte_Blom of @PrichardCom @RichHarwood of @HarwoodInst & @kjinquiry all hosted by @dperkinsed & more to be added soon Learn more & RSVP at: https://t.co/Fp61rGZsJk https://t.co/ytkMc5hNfE We have some great online 'events' coming up with folks like"
X Link 2024-02-04T16:47Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Extracurricular coaching is the healthiest aspect of public school. Almost everyone has chosen the sport/activity they are aligned in achieving excellence and good/great coaches know it is about the whole human being. And there is usually less bureaucracy than on academics. It's far beyond a seasonal/part-time job. It's far beyond a seasonal/part-time job"
X Link 2024-02-04T17:31Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@eduwonkette_jen $455 for Summit which they can almost certainly provide a scholarship. The real benefit of ESA legislation is to stimulate more options. If there are not currently spaces at existing schools new schools will be created wherever there is demand. This is the primary benefit"
X Link 2024-02-05T16:43Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Maria Montessori believed that her method was transforming humanity. Then a hostile prof of ed derailed her work in the US + Mussolini stopped it in Italy. Ed professors have mostly been hostile/indifferent. Guv schools have prevented widespread adoption. Renaissance at last The headline on this local TV news story is "Florida school voucher program makes private schools more accessible for families." The focus is on a booming Montessori school. There are now MORE THAN [---] Montessori schools participating in Florida's choice programs. Another The headline on this local TV news story is"
X Link 2024-02-05T19:12Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@ThoughtStretchr is hosting the following conversation between @naomicfisher and I moderated by @dperkinsed on The Side Effects of School: Does Traditional School Lead to Poor Mental Health for Students. Please join us on Feb. 25th"
X Link 2024-02-05T23:08Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@JenniferCa47882 @NeuroscienceNew Thanks powerful and sad"
X Link 2024-02-06T00:41Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements
"My political philosophy: Governance is hard. All of the following are in a failure mode: US China Russia UN EU WEF I could go on. Which entities would you bet on to be much more successful [--] years than they are now Bitcoin is the only one that comes to mind. Maybe more"
X Link 2024-02-12T04:55Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Im delighted to be discussing this issue with @dperkinsed and @naomicfisher on Feb. 25th. There are multiple pathways through which trad schools damage the mental health of some students. At a minimum feeling connected to others at school protects against many issues. Does traditional schooling lead to poor mental health for students We'll be discussing this with @naomicfisher & @flowidealism AND YOU on Feb 25th. Learn more and RSVP for this 'members-only' online event here: https://t.co/TKjZb25s8j https://t.co/lDKnR5G3hI Does traditional schooling lead to poor mental health for students"
X Link 2024-02-14T16:12Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements
"What @Sanilac_J is trying to solve w Ultrahumanism (see linked article in thread below his clip) is similar to how I see the entrepreneurial creation of governance and culture - the only long term robust solutions are based on deeply human communities optimized for wellbeing. Predictions from a year ago looking more plausible every day. https://t.co/rfjCzD2WbV Predictions from a year ago looking more plausible every day. https://t.co/rfjCzD2WbV"
X Link 2024-02-16T16:09Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"If k12 provided a much deeper level of connection community meaning and purpose the adolescent mental health crisis would be much smaller than it is. Yes social media has exacerbated trends in a terrifying way. But trad schooling is the problem"
X Link 2024-02-17T22:50Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@FountainheadFm There may have been a blip in some places but my understanding is that it back on its downward trajectory"
X Link 2024-02-18T17:50Z 11.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@priyanka_optom Given your description it sounds like sandbox games such as Minecraft and Roblox (rather than dopamine hits like first person shooter games)"
X Link 2024-02-19T18:49Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@keyhusted @joshcowenMSU @P_Diddy_Wolf Compare the results w this finding by @Dr_RolandFryer For males incarceration rates dropped from [--] percent among non-winners to zero for winners. From a randomized lottery study. It make senses that school enviro could have a significant impact"
X Link 2024-02-21T17:40Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@keyhusted @joshcowenMSU @P_Diddy_Wolf @Dr_RolandFryer Ive been creating small personalized alternative schools for decades. Ive seen 100s of students who were anxious depressed suicidal at a conventional school change schools and become happy and well. As we gather data I predict significantly better mental health outcomes"
X Link 2024-02-21T21:17Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@foragethefacts I agree that early specialization is more appropriate for limited domains such as chess. That said similar principles can be applied to the kind of generalist education that Epstein rightly emphasizes. I specialize in Socratic dialogue w children very much developing range"
X Link 2024-02-23T16:05Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@Trent_STEMpunk Yes and for those who are eager to learn +experience some agency as a learner it will be amazing. But insofar as most kids have their love of learning beat out of them by schooling they will prefer digital escapism to learning. We need schools that develop students as learners"
X Link 2024-02-25T22:53Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@JamesPoetzscher @AgustinLebron3 James is correct most high school classes move glacially slow compared to decent college classes. There are certainly exceptions but basically the default expectation is that not much is going on in a standard high school class"
X Link 2024-02-26T21:49Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Outside of STEM professional degrees (law medicine and business) college degrees rarely add value. Including the opportunity cost ROI is often negative. Imagine getting a marketing degree based on outdated textbooks from State U vs. learning digital marketing via YouTube Forget "disrupting Harvard" Instead just shut down the 50% of mid-tier universities that provide little to no value to graduates [--] years after graduation - 22% are making $15 min wage - 12% are making $0-5k more year - 17% are making $5-10k more per year via HEA Group https://t.co/16aPw8apvT Forget "disrupting Harvard""
X Link 2024-03-01T20:46Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Im a discussion w students at @socraticexp today on the adolescent mental health crisis. They focused on the need to have a purpose to be valued by a community + how social media + gaming addictions were a side effect of not feeling valuable. Why did we do this to teens 1/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"In traditional cultures at puberty young people began adult roles. They were expected to be valuable members of the tribe or community. There was little or no functional mental illness. It was only in the 20th century that we disconnected teens from society and meaning. 2/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Liah Greenfeld describes functional mental illness as due to anomie + the burden of creating a personal identity. In trad cultures w set roles no such burden existed. But individual identity gradually became a norm 1st among Elizabethan elites then for all of modernity. 3/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Religious belief maintained a protective element (atheists commit suicide Protestants Catholics + Jews). But religious belief has been declining even as all previous cultural norms have been disintegrating in the face of technology. Anomie has been growing for decades. 4/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"But prior to compulsory high school teens still had the world of work and family responsibilities to give them a sense of meaning and purpose. But in the 1950s for the 1st time a majority of teens graduated from high school. The result: concerns about juvenile delinquency. 5/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@jean_twenge + @JonHaidt are doing great work on the role of social media in exacerbating the adolescent mental health crisis. But the rise in teen suicides began in the 1950s steadily upward until the 1990s then a dip (SSRIs) then up again in the 00s faster after [----]. 6/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Maria Montessori recognized in [----] that an adolescent needs to feel valorized to feel capable and useful valuable in their community. When teens still worked +did chores they had that. But gradually attending school and entertaining themselves displaced other roles. 7/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"In trad societies ostracism from the community was a brutal punishment. Now we expect teens: 1) To create their own identities. 2) While largely preventing them from being valuable in their communities. 3) While providing addictive screens. We have ostracized their souls. 8/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Im not recommending a return to the past. But I do regard it as urgent to provide young people w opportunities to create meaningful roles for themselves. They can do it in many ways but they need support in becoming valuable and recognition for contributing to the world. 9/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"At @socraticexp we do so by: 1). Supporting students in real world creative +entrepreneurial achievements. 2). Expecting them to play a role in + improving their learning environment including leading when they are ready. 3). Mentoring them on their path in the world. 10/10"
X Link 2024-03-02T00:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@AgustinLebron3 @prendalearn has a system that sets parents up to create a [--] student microschool in their homes. They are active in AZ w universal ESAs. Each parent becomes an entrepreneur recruiting families but oft they are learning pods formalizing into a school"
X Link 2024-03-19T20:32Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@AndraLiemandt Insofar as she is confident secure and well-loved with a sense of purpose she is much less likely to get into adverse circumstances. But it is worth going over all of the potential dangers out there w/o causing alarm. How to do laundry is trivial compared to risk reduction"
X Link 2024-03-22T16:57Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Fascinating article. Best new data point: Nations w more gender equality score least well on chess gender equality ratings - Denmark Iceland and Sweden are worst in the world similar to finding that fewer women go into STEM in gender equal nations pointing to preferences. This has to be one of the most comprehensive and fascinating articles on sex differences ever written. Bravo @hoovlet (I know you worked hard on this) https://t.co/zrwwz5qtaG This has to be one of the most comprehensive and fascinating articles on sex differences ever written. Bravo @hoovlet (I know you worked hard on this)"
X Link 2024-03-22T19:52Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"NY will be one of the last states to pass ESA legislation but when they do what an opportunity for entrepreneurial teachers: Educate [--] students for $150k or [--] for $300k Higher spend does not automatically lead to higher performance for schools government and companies. Higher spend does not automatically lead to higher performance for schools government and companies"
X Link 2024-03-28T16:07Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@bigfatsurprise Bacon is the candy of meat"
X Link 2024-04-06T19:08Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Im all in favor of having students memorize basic math facts especially the times tables. Fluency is valuable. I also see the value of memorizing poems I find beautiful. But as a learner I have never found memorizing facts for tests to be valuable. Most of secondary education was memorize and forget get the A on the test and let it go. As an adult I have an immense knowledge base that comes entirely from expanding my understanding of issues. I retain facts because they enrich my understanding of the world not because I memorize them. I want students to care about understanding the world to"
X Link 2024-04-08T16:35Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@DStrachman Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Dolly Parton One of my favorite quotes"
X Link 2024-04-10T20:22Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@PlayNiceInst Im always delighted to find someone else who tells it like it is. Are public schools causing an epidemic of mental illness https://flowidealism.medium.com/are-public-schools-causing-an-epidemic-of-mental-illness-1b37b6c0ef3e https://flowidealism.medium.com/are-public-schools-causing-an-epidemic-of-mental-illness-1b37b6c0ef3e"
X Link 2024-04-14T23:58Z 10.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@justinfinck @PlayNiceInst @JonHaidt Part of the prob as @JonHaidt notes is that social media is replacing healthy activities (eg @FreeRangeKids ). But he has just begun to note the ways that trad schooling is actively harmful (while also replacing healthy activities). High agency learning is the next frontier"
X Link 2024-04-15T00:12Z 10.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@_alice_evans Years ago I realized that the best rationale for a larger oil tax was to quit subsidizing the worst regimes in the world (Norway was not a player then). Cheering you on in the hopes that you can introduce rationality into conversations on how to improve conditions for women"
X Link 2024-04-15T15:05Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The genius of Montessori was that she created a childhood environment in which this type of behavior quickly becomes normal. Actually the normal child is one who is precociously intelligent who has learned to overcome himself and to live in peace and who prefers a disciplined task to futile idleness. Montessori Actually the normal child is one who is precociously intelligent who has learned to overcome himself and to live in peace and who prefers a disciplined task to futile idleness. Montessori"
X Link 2024-04-15T19:18Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"More people need to speak up about this. Elementary wasnt so bad but most of secondary school was a tedious wasteland. School has stolen my childhood and Ill never forgive them School has stolen my childhood and Ill never forgive them"
X Link 2024-04-18T14:47Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@MakesMarty The quotation is from @bryan_caplan but I understand him to mean that most educational content is not used by students. The skills of reading writing and arithmetic are exceptions but those can be learned in a small fraction of the time currently devoted to schooling"
X Link 2024-04-20T22:02Z 10.9K followers, [---] engagements
"My question is How well will they grok unstructured situations for which there are no training data Humans are physically immersed beings embedded in social and cultural meaning systems. We perceive new realities in real time before any relevant training data exist. At some point it is possible that the full gestalt of human existence may be made available as training data. But that is awhile away. Einstein was making a gestalt move based on rethinking time and simultaneity through consistent reasoning. No relevant training data existed - unless these esoteric conceptual skills rare among"
X Link 2024-04-21T04:51Z 10.9K followers, [---] engagements
"After a brief check in to see what she knows about Bitcoin and money (with a brief audio problem after which the audio is clear) we begin working through the first two paragraphs of Saifedean Ammous's book The Bitcoin Standard. The achievement is that she is ready and able to read and discuss such complex prose at age [--] (having been doing this with me since age [--] see other videos at the channel). Some concepts are still fuzzy but we'll keep working towards greater depth and mastery"
X Link 2024-04-21T16:42Z 11K followers, [---] engagements
"While Im very critical of digital addictions and generally agree with Twenge and Haidts account of the harms that social media has caused young girls they have also been wonderful. This video is a great feel good piece. .@nickgillespie talks often of the way the internet and social media have given a voice to all sorts of preciously voiceless people and how it has empowered them to be creative and change the world a little bit. Here is the story of one of those people. https://t.co/o1YuEcRyyg .@nickgillespie talks often of the way the internet and social media have given a voice to all sorts"
X Link 2024-04-22T04:23Z 11K followers, [---] engagements
"A great list of luxuries that matter for quality of life. And I realize I know of no one who cares about trad luxuries as in status branded goods such as clothes cars etc. When I think luxury brands I think Real Housewives of New Jersey. Here's a checklist of [--] modern luxuries for entrepreneurs and creators aiming to live well in 2024: How many do you check off [--]. A+ headphones A+ coffee/tea A+ laptop [--]. 1+ project that brings in $2k+/month relatively passively [--]. International airport within [--] minutes https://t.co/DUCqDSuDDA Here's a checklist of [--] modern luxuries for entrepreneurs and"
X Link 2024-04-27T16:28Z 11K followers, [---] engagements
"Adrian Fenty former DC mayor who appointed Michelle Rhee "Our party is terrible on education which means were terrible on poor people. And because thats the only thing thats going to be a solution." https://pioneerinstitute.org/learning-curve/former-d-c-mayor-adrian-fenty-on-school-reform https://pioneerinstitute.org/learning-curve/former-d-c-mayor-adrian-fenty-on-school-reform"
X Link 2024-04-27T17:10Z 11K followers, [---] engagements
"Get your child out if they are falling off the engagement cliff In elementary school 76% of students are engaged at school. By high school that is 44% (in the data below- Ive seen more recent data putting it at 33%). If your child is not engaged at school they are more likely to develop a range of toxic habits. If your child is losing interest in school find another program that is more successful at engaging them ASAP. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/170525/school-cliff-student-engagement-drops-school-year.aspx"
X Link 2024-04-29T19:09Z 11K followers, [----] engagements
"@ninapaley @heterodorx Visible"
X Link 2024-04-29T19:10Z 11K followers, [--] engagements
"See passage below where Harris argues that private choice will result in education that prioritizes career building and social networks rather than civic virtues. But if that is the case we would not expect to see private schools resulting in more civic virtues than public (unless you want to argue that these students would be even MORE civically minded had they remained in public schools which strikes me as far-fetched)"
X Link 2024-04-30T02:19Z 11K followers, [--] engagements
"The system is dying because it is irrelevant to students lives. A new report from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation surveyed more than [----] Gen Z students between the ages of [--] to [--] finding that less than half enrolled in middle or high school felt motivated to go to school. Grant young people more agency to direct their own lives and learning and they will find their purpose and their motivation. https://t.co/MSlwvov7sX Grant young people more agency to direct their own lives and learning and they will find their purpose and their motivation. https://t.co/MSlwvov7sX"
X Link 2024-05-01T13:20Z 11K followers, [----] engagements
"While I fully support @JonHaidt s work the next frontier is for him to explore the role of schooling in adolescent depression and suicide. See data below 1980-2019. Under 14s have the most dramatic relief when out of school but 15-18 pattern is similar. Note that after [--] this pattern vanishes - graduating out of the suicide factory. Look what happens to suicide rates for children under [--] when they get a summer and Christmas break. It's important we start asking why these young children would rather kill themselves than go to school. https://t.co/DB2ZicaBM4 Look what happens to suicide rates"
X Link 2024-05-03T22:58Z 11K followers, [----] engagements
"As a parent and as an educator Im acutely aware of the danger of digital addictions for all children. Ive certainly known many boys with video game addictions some of whom successfully overcame their addictions and were glad to do so. So in homes and schools Im all for restricting technology access or at least guiding it and monitoring it to minimize harms and maximize benefits. Certainly Ive known kids for whom Minecraft has been immensely positive. But I would never allow unrestricted internet access for young people. The early porn alone is horrifying"
X Link 2024-05-04T00:41Z 11K followers, [--] engagements
"@robinhanson s prediction markets @bryan_caplan s reputational bets and @PTetlock s super forecasters are the most viable direction. Mainstream academic credentialing systems outside of STEM are completely unmoored from empirical reality - and @skdh shows that even physics is problematic"
X Link 2024-05-04T21:29Z 11K followers, [----] engagements
"When I learned public choice theory in the 1980s I concluded that it was almost inexorable that special interests would win in large heterogeneous democracies. I was depressed for [--] years. Now Im focused on new jurisdictions and competitive governance. That said there are occasional wins for deregulation such as airline and trucking in the 70s YIMBY and ESA wins today. Competition among governments is the real win. As capital and talent flee CA and NY to go to TX and FL gradually the pain in those states may force change. The big win is Bitcoin - when Bitcoin hits $100k more than half the"
X Link 2024-05-08T02:18Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Was browsing the student Slack channel at @socraticexp and found that this student post had [--] replies: random thought and I was wondering about others thoughts on this: A human achieving perfection is inherently paradoxical due to being a state of which no improvement or change can happen after it being achieved humans ability to change grow and self improvement will also reach perfection creating a paradox. Thoughts everyone"
X Link 2024-05-08T22:40Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Thomas Jeffersons original vision was of small community schools managed by parents with scholarships for those who couldnt afford tuition. Horace Manns Prussian state-led version was alien to the founders. The 20th century saw massive centralization from more than [------] districts in [----] to fewer than [-----] in [----]. Gradually layers and layers of bureaucracy and union rules dramatically constrained teacher and principal autonomy. There are still good people doing good things there but as a system it is dying"
X Link 2024-05-09T01:35Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements
"My wife @magattew appears in this film She Rises Up which premiers in NYC on June 21st. Go to the website to see when it will appear in your city or to request a screening. It is the inspiring story of three women entrepreneurs (Magatte in Senegal others in Sri Lanka and Peru) working to create jobs in their nations"
X Link 2024-05-11T13:18Z 11.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@Nemo_o @magattew When Hong Kong took off in the 1960s guv Ed existed but was neither free nor compulsory and fewer than 8% of students attended high school. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48604088.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48604088.pdf"
X Link 2024-05-12T18:53Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Similarly in [----] when the US had already been the fastest growing economy for several decades only about 40% of students got to 8th grade and fewer than 10% were in high school. In [----] when we were taking off fewer than 20% got to 8th grade. Most nations that achieved prosperity did so with remarkably little education in the early stages"
X Link 2024-05-12T18:58Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@Nemo_o @magattew Hong Kong GDP per capita increased from about $100 in [----] to almost $50k today (in current US dollars). Average GDP per capita tends to correspond to wage growth (except in resource dependent economies which HK is not). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CDlocations=HK-XN https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CDlocations=HK-XN"
X Link 2024-05-12T20:48Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@freedom_usa__ has a real reason to be furious at the system: Jenny was released from a 27-day jail sentence in June of 2023.Her violation Taking her child with special needs out of a bad educational environment and moving him to homeschool as permitted by law. And Jenny is not your average parent: she is especially qualified to do so with her bachelors degree in education and masters degree in special education and early Intervention.How could this happen https://broadandliberty.com/2024/01/16/sharon-sedlar-a-homeschool-injustice-in-allegheny-county/ THIS IS WHY I WAS WILLING TO GO TO JAIL -"
X Link 2024-05-17T15:06Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements
"The history of 20th century communism is so horrific and bizarre and the fact that most 20th century intellectuals supported it makes the whole history even stranger. As James Bennett suggests someday well all have a morbid curiosity about how this could have happened. I already do. Kronstadt "Rebellion" soviet naval infantry that participated in the Russian Revolution credited as one of the big reasons the revolution won Kronstadt's notice all the promises the communists made aren't happening send an organized letter complaining the communists send https://t.co/UHCMU0bvU6 Kronstadt"
X Link 2024-05-20T02:36Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@JonHaidt has mentioned schooling a bit. While I completely support Twenge and Haidts social media hypothesis the next frontier is a focus on how meaninglessness and alienating school is for most students. 75% of high school students are unhappy at school 66% are not engaged. It is a moral social and emotional catastrophe - and it doesnt have to be this way"
X Link 2024-05-22T15:53Z 11.1K followers, [--] engagements
"I completely agree. Cultural homogeneity is a much bigger factor in the alleged success of many public school systems than most people realize. When people point to Finland as a successful example of public education I point out that Finland is the most ethnically homogeneous nation in Europe-with a population smaller than Houston"
X Link 2024-05-26T15:57Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The quote is from a comment at @slatestarcodex not mine. But Ive created intellectually vibrant secondary schools for decades and have no difficulty getting intellectually curious people. Providing them with significant autonomy is part of the solution for sure. But I get well educated people spontaneously sending inbound applications to teach at @socraticexp unsolicited several times per month"
X Link 2024-05-26T16:11Z 11.6K followers, 11K engagements
"I have someone a huge raise today because they consistently take initiative to solve problems. In most startups there are so many things that need fixing that employees who proactively identify what the problems are and who take the initiative to solve them are invaluable. Grades Test scores Credentials Blah blah blah. Irrelevant. Show me people who can get shit done. This is a parable for how perfectly irrelevant standard schooling is"
X Link 2024-06-06T05:33Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Im a big advocate of self paced math because many kids can easily learn [--] years of math per year some kids much more. And of course readers should be allowed to read voraciously instead of slogging through school. This was obvious to me as a kid in the 60s and 70s. It has been obvious to me as an educator for nearly [--] years. It is flabbergasting that it is not yet obvious to everyone. Galaxy brain: dividing students into strict age groups with 1-year-wide buckets is not the right option for kids Galaxy brain: dividing students into strict age groups with 1-year-wide buckets is not the right"
X Link 2024-06-07T16:31Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@dissidentvibes Much better than school for most kids. I expect also interesting conversations and lots of other cool experiences but that may be the water in which you swim so much that it is invisible"
X Link 2024-06-07T20:21Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Sadly Im not the least bit surprised by the fact that younger children in a cohort are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and autism. Yes it is very worrying. But I regard our entire education establishment as very worrying. Most people take the entire system for granted and thus dont bring such a critical eye to the entire system. This is a very worrying finding which needs follow up and if confirmed urgent policy revision. #SummerBirthdays https://t.co/OqHcwjNOi6 https://t.co/f8B01ivFQF This is a very worrying finding which needs follow up and if confirmed urgent policy revision."
X Link 2024-06-09T18:48Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Nations that are most interested in entrepreneurial governance are often marginal nations eager to leapfrog with respect to technology. No zones involved in this project but Bhutan has been interested in zones and may yet become an interesting player in the competitive governance market. Pretty wild https://t.co/AUepT551GT Pretty wild https://t.co/AUepT551GT"
X Link 2024-06-15T03:57Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@geoffreydgraham I like the coinage crapitalism (a contraction of crony capitalism) by @GeneSohoForum . We are for capitalism not crapitalism"
X Link 2024-06-16T16:10Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"TikTok regards this as offensive content. When you run an ad standing up for women and girls' sports you get banned for life from @tiktok_us. Here's the ad. Offensive right 🙃 https://t.co/ZN8uS0au1W When you run an ad standing up for women and girls' sports you get banned for life from @tiktok_us. Here's the ad. Offensive right 🙃 https://t.co/ZN8uS0au1W"
X Link 2024-06-19T00:28Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Congrats @FlowTap1 It is important to document the public benefits of private education especially in light of the eternal myth that government schools provide any kind of effective civic education. Am thrilled with the impact of our study The Public Purposes of Private Education. Released a mere [--] months ago it already sports over [----] unique accesses which ranks 863rd of over 300k articles tracked by Altmetric (Top 0.25%) @LarsonPR #SchoolChoice https://t.co/bvBxYrMHOq Am thrilled with the impact of our study The Public Purposes of Private Education. Released a mere [--] months ago it already"
X Link 2024-06-20T00:17Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements
"The number of special economic zones have increased from a few dozens in the 70s to thousands today. Chinese SEZs brought a billion people from poor to middle class. Dubai pioneered a new jurisdiction that allowed it to become a top ten financial center within a sharia law nation. Perhaps you are simply interested in recreational insults but I like to presume a commitment to evidence and rationality even among those whose first impulse is to insult without understanding what they are talking about"
X Link 2024-06-21T16:28Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@aejochim @jandrewclark @AaronGarthSmith @AZBethLewis @NealMcCluskey We also have ample empirical and historical evidence that incumbents use regulations to raise barriers to entry and thus prevent competition and innovation"
X Link 2024-06-22T23:12Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@aejochim @jandrewclark @AaronGarthSmith @AZBethLewis @NealMcCluskey Why is leaving a program ipso facto problematic I expect the more common choice becomes the more frequently well see people changing programs"
X Link 2024-06-22T23:19Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Im open to basic health and safety regulations but almost anything that constrains what counts as education usually locks in the status quo. Ive seen many students whose confidence had been so damaged by schooling (sometimes to the point of suicidal ideation on a daily basis) that they needed to take a year or two off from standard academics to recover. I see standard education (public and private) as a public health catastrophe. We need to allow families to follow non traditional pathways as needed"
X Link 2024-06-22T23:30Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"This is not at all surprising. And I explained expect that many students who develop interest and motivation engage in more substantive activities with sustained focus. Ive certainly known students with no ability to focus on math spending hours with amazing focus building worlds in Minecraft sometimes including coding. This study led by University of Central Florida found that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms manifest watching videos requiring executive brain function. https://t.co/fnVTzBi5Bg This study led by University of Central Florida found that Attention Deficit"
X Link 2024-06-23T23:59Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Hi Ashley You ask how do we create better systems for children A few things: [--]. Im all in favor of daily math practice year round and memorization of times tables along with fluency in calculation more generally. That said there are much better ways to do math. When my son was in elementary school he took math classes with IMACS based on CSMP fun game like activities that develop fluency and conceptual thinking. As an adult data scientist now responsible for optimizing the largest server farm in the world he regards it as one of the best mathematical training experiences in his life. [--]. My"
X Link 2024-06-27T02:33Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Not crazy at all. Hayek-Popper-Polanyi open doors into a much larger world in the humanities and social sciences. And New Institutional Economics is already integrated with the study of law governance and culture and should be more so. Conversely Stiglitz seems to be evidence that a mathematical economist is not very good at reading"
X Link 2024-06-27T21:04Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Perhaps you didnt read The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization but it is perfectly clear that he sees incremental innovation as frequent and dispersed in an unpredictable manner. It is an epistemological argument. The few are not any kind of elite in any traditional sense. They are those occasional entrepreneurs who eventually have significant impact by means of providing consumers with valuable goods and services. But we should above all provide the maximum of opportunity for unknown individuals to learn facts of which we are yet unaware and opportunity to use this knowledge in their"
X Link 2024-06-30T18:07Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@robinhanson and @PTetlock should share a Nobel prize in econ for their work in developing prediction markets and forecasting as an alternative source of epistemological validity. Academic peer review and associated prestige metrics currently remain the mainstream gold standard for epistemological validity even though they are an inconsistent filter for truth at best and often irrelevant or even inconsistent with truth seeking. By contrast the continued improvements in prediction markets and forecasting platforms have created incentive systems entirely focused on predicting the future as"
X Link 2024-07-06T20:23Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@itsemileeharper @goslee_aaron That was a review. This is Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Tree-Personal-Educating-Themselves/dp/1939709121 https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Tree-Personal-Educating-Themselves/dp/1939709121"
X Link 2024-07-07T14:47Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Seeing like a state was both a great book as well as a key conceptual lens that should be used more broadly. The state needs people to be legible visible and available for state management. The catastrophe of government schooling is an example of seeing like a state instead of seeing children as human beings. . passed away on July [--]. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.👇 https://t.co/FjFUd68Gts . passed away"
X Link 2024-07-21T19:59Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@joequirkexults s book is great well worth the read. Many of the technologies that were speculative when the book was published are now at various stages of development. https://t.co/oIOLovGCcD https://t.co/5VbHNnU0Z6 https://t.co/oIOLovGCcD https://t.co/5VbHNnU0Z6"
X Link 2024-07-22T20:37Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
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