Saurabh Saxena

Beautiful!!

@zarazhangrui By not educating them, by getting out of the way. By not feeling we are responsible for their so called “education”!

How do we educate our kids such that they have agency?

"Teenagers" didn't exist until the twentieth century. Before that, young people joined adult life by twelve or thirteen. They worked the farm or apprenticed in a trade. They weren't coddled or warehoused. You rarely see adolescent rebellion in a traditional village because there are no adolescents. There are children and adults. Children become adults by doing adult work. What we call "teenage rebellion" is often a reaction to being told to sit still through years of meaningless, compulsory schooling. Lock proud young men in a room and ask them to copy vocabulary words, and they're going to rebel. Then we call their rebellion a "problem," diagnose them, and funnel them into the school-to-prison pipeline. We create the behavior we claim to fear, then punish kids for it.

I created a charter school in Angel Fire, New Mexico - a town of maybe fifteen hundred people. When a kid got in serious trouble, I could talk to the judge or the chief of police. We could talk like human beings and decide when to crack down and when to cut a kid slack. That discretion is the difference between a community and a bureaucracy. Scale is dangerous. The bigger the system, the less human it becomes. The less discretion people have. The more it becomes a compliance machine. Public school operates like a religion in the United States. Reverence. Assumption of goodness. The idea that questioning it makes you anti-child or anti-teacher. When something has a halo, you stop inspecting it. I want parents to inspect it.

If your child becomes a voracious reader, 80% of the educational work is already done. I read 200-page books every night at age 10. Today I read research articles for fun. Most knowledge people think requires formal schooling can be gained through reading, audiobooks, or quality YouTube content, if you're judicious about what you consume.

The real reason some people have unbreakable willpower… Isn't discipline. It's a brain structure most people have never heard of. It only grows when you suffer. And it might predict how long you live. Here's what Stanford neuroscientists discovered: 🧵

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@chrismanfrank Can't agree more @chrismanfrank Everything that education system needs today has mostly been done before and forgotten, just tech enabling it better, wider and deeper is what is needed!

A little uncomfortable when people say we are "reimagining" education. A lot of what we do is look to the best of what's been done in the past.

@bapnaa @terradotdo Congrats to you Anshuman Sir and team! This is truly inspirational. Building a community driven business myself, your story serves as even a deeper inspiration for entrepreneurs like me and others who are on tough missions like these. Infinite power to you guys!

I'm thrilled to announce that @terradotdo, we've raised a $5M seed round from some incredible human beings. *162* of them, to be precise! I've raised $$s many times, but this one was an absolute revelation. A thread on why we chose this path. 🧵 1/n

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