They thought Elon Musk was retarded. That’s what Walter Isaacson reports in his biography of Musk about the teachers at Musk’s elementary school. Musk’s response to Isaacson was “I wasn’t really going to put an effort into things I thought were meaningless.” From Musk’s reply readers can hopefully see true hope for education. Opposite […]
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Kyle Schwarber recently signed a 5-year, $150 million deal to stay with the Philadelphia Phillies. Which speaks to our exciting present and future. As a former college teammate once put it about Schwarber, he’s “not going to go into macroeconomics and get an A,” but “when you get on the baseball field, that kid
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Falling test scores signal rising prosperity. The declines that have pundits up in arms are a signal of a much better future precisely because they signal soaring individual specialization. Which requires a brief digression. In last week’s opinion piece about the scandalous fact that algebra is still taught in schools centuries after they began teaching it,
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Imagine doing the same thing the same way repeatedly not just for months or years, but centuries. Such is the way of education, whether public or private. Worse, education’s immutability is prized. If this is doubted, see how parents and children alike covet the oldest, most “old school” of schools. No doubt this is great
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“Having to get up and read in class when I couldn’t make sense of the words felt like a fate worse than death.” That’s how the late Ozzy Osbourne described life at school while growing up in Birmingham. To read about what he endured is to be sickened, and to want to wring the
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It’s easy to forget that right into the 1990s, Sears was viewed as a blue chip retailer. In the year 2000, it’s worth remembering that GE was the world’s most valuable company, Enron the smartest, and AOL the gold standard of the burgeoning internet economy. So, what does simple U.S. business history have to
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The more that kids can cheat thanks to AI advances, the better education will become. Yes, you read that right. No need to read it again. AI-enabled cheating on homework, term papers and tests will vastly improve education. Consider the world outside of school to understand why. People used to know how to milk
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History will show that as traditional test scores meant to gauge in-class learning fell in the U.S., so rose the economic prospects of that same U.S. Pundits fail to see this because they view education as some kind of other. It’s not. For background, stop and think about the biggest and best U.S. businesses in
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Back in the 1980s and 1990s, and likely before that, the University of Southern California (USC) had the reputation of a “safety school.” The biggest challenge to what some referred to as the University of Spoiled Children was the nosebleed tuition, not attaining the proverbial fat envelope. Fast forward to the present, and USC
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The Roots of STEM Excellence” can’t be found in instruction, but in people too brilliant to be held down by non-admission to an elite school, or a lack of schooling altogether.
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