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Classical Education is making a comeback in America and I intend to be right in the middle of it. 'Claiming to become wise, they become fools.' https://t.co/qUA6THhVwp

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Joe Higgins - Education Entrepreneur@JoeEthosLogos·
Listening to "Joe Higgins on Connecting Curriculum and Dinner Table Conversations" at buzzsprout.com/1320010/136357… Jeremy's team at CLT is at the forefront of the Classical Education movement. We sat down and talked about policy & why Classical Ed is the way back for America.
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Jeremy Wayne Tate
Jeremy Wayne Tate@JeremyTate41·
Classical literature is not just harder content. It is liberation. It rips students out of the tiny prison of their own age, their own trends, their own slogans, their own shallow assumptions about what matters. It reminds them the world did not begin with them, and that their feelings are not the measure of truth. Shakespeare doesn’t teach “skills.” He reveals ambition, lust, betrayal, guilt, and the cost of sin. Homer teaches courage and honor. Augustine exposes the restless heart. Dante shows that loves can be ordered rightly or twisted into ruin. These books give students a map of the soul. Our greatest enemy is a culture training kids to be bored by silence and incapable of deep thought.
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Sassafrass84@Sassafrass_84·
Just read this on Fb. America take notes. 👇 Sweden Schools Ditch Screens to Revive Traditional Learning 📚✏️ Sweden is bringing back handwriting, paper, and printed textbooks in schools after years of heavy reliance on digital devices. Students are now learning core skills with books and pencils, with technology serving as a supportive tool rather than the focus. The move comes after research showed that excessive screen time in classrooms can reduce reading comprehension, attention spans, and deep focus. Teachers also observed weaker handwriting and sustained reading skills among students. This shift prioritizes foundational learning while keeping digital tools in a supplementary role. Sweden’s strategy is being hailed as an “analog revival,” setting an example for other nations on balancing modern technology with essential traditional skills in education. References: BBC News: Sweden Ends Digital Teaching to Bring Back Handwriting and Books Reuters: Sweden Schools Return to Paper-Based Learning
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Joe Higgins - Education Entrepreneur@JoeEthosLogos·
Yep, we have this too.
Fox News@FoxNews

FAILING GRADE: Education advocates urge stronger national civics standards as new data highlights gaps in students’ understanding of American government ahead of a federal assessment update. The latest "Nation's Report Card," released in 2022, found just 22% of eighth graders proficient in civics, while 31% scored below basic. The group "Defending Education" urges the new assessment prioritize the Constitution and America’s founding principles, warning weak standards and a focus on DEI are driving a “wave of activism” and turning students into “pawns in someone else’s game.”

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Karen Vaites
Karen Vaites@karenvaites·
"Across state after state, scores in both 4th and 8th grade rose steadily for many years prior to large-scale digital adoption. After adoption, however, the trajectory shifts - often sharply - toward decline." Jared Cooney Horvath shares the analysis behind his congressional testimony: @JonHaidt @safe_screens
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Hedgie
Hedgie@HedgieMarkets·
🦔 A neuroscientist who testified before the Senate says US schools weren't broken until tech companies convinced them they were. Jared Cooney Horvath found that test scores in Utah started declining right when schools implemented mandatory digital infrastructure in 2014. The US has spent $30 billion putting laptops and tablets in classrooms since 2002. According to international data, more time students spend on computers correlates with worse scores, not better. Gen Z is the first generation to score lower than their parents on standardized assessments. Now the same cycle is repeating with AI. A Pew survey found more than half of US teens use AI for schoolwork. Teachers report students can't reason, think, or solve problems independently. Horvath argues that tools experts use to make their lives easier are not the tools students should use to learn how to become experts. My Take The "transfer problem" goes back to the 1950s. Students learn to master the tool but not the subject matter. Pressey and Skinner ran into this with teaching machines 70 years ago, and we're running into it again with AI. The tech changes but the outcome doesn't. I think Horvath has it right. Learning requires friction. You have to struggle with a problem to actually understand it. AI removes that friction, which feels like help but functions as dependency. An expert can use AI effectively because they already know enough to evaluate the output. A student using AI to skip the hard part never builds that foundation. We're watching an entire generation learn to operate tools instead of developing the skills the tools are supposed to augment. The productivity gains go to the platforms, not to the kids. Hedgie🤗
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Joe Higgins - Education Entrepreneur@JoeEthosLogos·
Sounds a lot like Saxon math....I had it in grade school, and we teach it in our schools. Now that's old school.
Rod@rodjnaquin

6th grade teacher Jon Midget dramatically improved math scores by changing his approach. He now starts each class with timed multiplication drills, teaches procedures before concepts, and has students practice 30-40 problems daily instead of just 6. Every assignment mixes new and old topics throughout the year. Result: over 80% of students now score in the 97th percentile. hollykorbey.substack.com/p/how-to-weave…

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TheUnquirer
TheUnquirer@unquirer·
Maine Homeschooling Surpasses Pandemic Levels Roughly 1 in 15 (6.4% of children) are now homeschooled, which is well above the national average. School boards across the state are discussing this "problem" during Jan/Feb 2026 budget meetings. As Maine parents grow aware of what is happening behind public school walls, they are pulling their children to keep them safe from leftwing political indoctrination and ideologies designed to 'rot'.
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Joe Higgins - Education Entrepreneur@JoeEthosLogos·
@SandmanMD2 @WeaponizD1 Gentlemen, nice to meet you. My focus is on rebuilding institutions that helped build this country. Faith, family and schools are where I am hyper focused. Planting trees I may never sit under. Best for your efforts in your areas of expertise. Circle up if I can help.
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Sandman MD@SandmanMD2·
@WeaponizD1 @JoeEthosLogos Yes. He develops classical education curriculums for home schooling. Something I could really get behind.
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Sandman MD@SandmanMD2·
I just was informed that this gentleman, @JoeEthosLogos, who I do not know, added me to a list called “Wolves.” I also noticed many of my friends are on this list. Can anyone vouch for him and as to his intentions with said list? It feels almost as if there is an attempt to monitor us, or make a list “for later.” I have tagged him in this post, and hope he chimes in with his motivation for making a list called “Wolves,” and adding us. He can even feel free to DM me regarding this list. Sir?
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guz
guz@JordanRivire5·
Faites ce que je dis, pas ce que je fais...👇 « Brené Brown confie ce qui l’effraie le plus chez l’élite technologique. “Je me retrouve dans des cercles où siègent ceux qui dirigent les plateformes et possèdent les grandes entreprises. J’entends un milliardaire affirmer : ‘Mes enfants devraient apprendre le code et la physique — c’est là que se trouve l’avenir.’ Cinq minutes plus tard, la même personne explique : ‘Mon succès vient d’une lecture approfondie de la philosophie et des Stoïciens.’ Alors, que faut-il croire ? On a le sentiment qu’une classe de penseurs est en train d’émerger : eux cultivent la philosophie, les humanités, l’histoire… pendant que le reste d’entre nous se contente de faire défiler des écrans. Steve Jobs disait que ses enfants n’avaient pas d’iPad. Sa famille l’a confirmé : aucun écran à table — on y parlait d’art et d’histoire.” La fracture est bien réelle — et elle ne fait que s’aggraver. Extrait de 1 min 35 — constat glaçant. »
Camus@newstart_2024

Brené Brown shares what terrifies her most about the tech elite "I'm in rooms with the people who run these platforms and own the companies. I hear one billionaire say: 'My kids should study coding and physics — that's the future.' Five minutes later, the same person says: 'My success comes from deep reading of philosophy and the Stoics.' Which is it? It feels like there's an emerging thinking class: they get philosophy, liberal arts, history... while the rest of us just keep scrolling. Steve Jobs said his kids didn't have iPads. His family confirmed: no tech at dinner — they talked about art and history." The divide is real — and it's growing. 1:35 clip inside — sobering observation.

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Steve McGuire
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79·
NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen. The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8. They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and middle school math skills in addition to the one covering gaps from high school. 🧵
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Wendy
Wendy@teachthemx3·
I had a new student in my Algebra II class. She was homeschooled previously, and this was her first experience in public school. Two days in, she’s already unerolling. I’m not surprised, given our last conversation. Her words when I asked her what she thought: “I wanted to see what all the hype was and maybe go to prom, but this isn’t for me. Most of class is spent waiting for everyone to open their Chromebooks or figure out what to do after the teacher has literally said it 5 times. And, I can’t use the bathrooms because of all the vaping.” I knew it wasn’t going to work when she brought back an entire unit packet (meant to be completed over 2 weeks) the next day. And no, she didn’t use AI. I asked her a few questions and she could explain the most difficult concepts verbally. She even offered her advice on how the sequencing of the packet could be improved.
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️@HippyMomPhD·
In classical education, they call this the trivium. Children must first have knowledge, then they can wonder about knowledge. Finally, they create NEW knowledge. It's incredible to watch♥️
SoL in the Wild@SoLInTheWild

I’ve noticed that student curiosity and questioning has grown because of explicit instruction. When students have a foundation of knowledge, they then have something meaningful to wonder about. Knowledge doesn’t suppress inquiry. It fuels it. We have to know before we can wonder.

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Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath·
We need competition in how our kids are educated - the current monopoly is bankrupting us.
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