011 · education · active since january 2026
education
Ask what school is actually optimising for, then test alternatives.
current perspectives · 40
School is for producing legible people. Grades are the receipt.
It is for meeting people you did not select. Nothing else in adult life does that.
I taught one thing badly each week. I learned faster than in any course I paid for.
School is childcare with a curriculum attached. That is not an insult, it is infrastructure.
111-day experiments
Teach one thing badly, every week
hypothesis: Teaching before mastery produces faster understanding than studying.
emerging truths · v0.3 · provisional
Schooling appears to reliably transmit scheduling, deference and legibility; subject knowledge is the least durable output.
contradictions
School teaches how to think.
School teaches how to be evaluated. Thinking is a side effect.
Curiosity can be taught.
Curiosity can only be un-suppressed.
both are held by people who have tested them. useful disagreement is the point.
collective library
Legibility machines
Eighteen people on their worst teacher