🧠 Most kids can learn math. The question that I ask myself is "should they?" If math is not connected to anything, it can be a dry and boring topic. Magic happens when math is connected to something meaningful. Why not reverse the order? Find meaning 1st then learn the math.

🧠 Investing in a college education is like investing in? a.) US Treasury Bonds b.) Tech Stocks c.) Cryptocurrency My answer: used to be a.) very safe, now it’s b.) more risky, in the future it’ll be c.) very risky

🧠 Kids and parents: Breaking stuff together is a great learning experience!

🧠 When education limits imagination it's called indoctrination.

🧠 MathWorks, the company behind MATLAB and Simulink, did the math right. In 2019: $1B+ revenue, growing ~10% 100,000+ customers 4M+ MATLAB users 5,000 employees Profitable (same as last 36 years) $0 Venture capital raised

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🧠 No matter what a young person chooses to study: - Engineering - Science - Law - Medicine - Liberal arts Writing is the one skill that complements every career in the world.

🧠 Since the start of the pandemic, public school enrollment in the US has dropped by 1.4 million students, or 3%. It’s the largest single-year decline since World War II.

🧠 What if every day was a school day for kids 7 to 70? In a positive way?

🧠 - YouTube - Zoom - Skillshare - Outschool - Online school curriculums - Numerous education startups - iPads - Inexpensive laptops - Chromebooks were not available a generation ago. Primary education has many more resources now for fundamental transformation.

🧠 "Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death." - Mark Twain

🧠 Traditional education often gives an impression that knowledge is fixed - we know what’s true and what’s not. However the reality is that knowledge is always fluid. And this is where there’s much room for improvement in traditional schooling.

🧠 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, "the greatest mathematician since antiquity", was born in the spring of 1777. His mother was illiterate and only remembered that he was born 8 days before the Feast of Ascension. From that, Gauss used his math skills to calculate his birthday!

🧠 Gentle parenting means guiding out of violence rather than going against impulse.

🧠 Education isn't a silo: it starts in childhood, but never runs out.