September 2022

If parents are the most important factor in their children’s education, what chance do my children have? I didn’t get a good education, how do I give my children what I lack? As a parent you don’t need to know everything, none of us do. In fact, some parents with great educations help their children […]

It is my judgement that the biggest problem with education has nothing to do with schools. Given this, hiring better teachers, training them another way, building better buildings, offering other courses, reforming teachers’ unions—I do not believe that any of these things get to the root of the problem. I’m not saying we shouldn’t try

It is easy to talk about education in the abstract, but we are concrete people with limited time and resources. These limitations require us to ask: what should students learn? I think it is important to begin by noting that there is a lot that one should learn, more in fact than anyone can learn

The goal of education isn’t a student that is able to do certain types of things, but a student who has become a certain type of person. This begs the question: how do we actually do this? First, we need to recognize that people are created with a certain end in mind. We can distinguish