Get my Foreword to John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down
I couldn’t be more excited to publicly announce that I had the honor of writing the foreword to the 25th Anniversary Edition of John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. If you’ve never read this book, place a pre-order for the new edition now. If you have read the book, buy a […]
Peter Thiel: College Beats Our Dreams Out of Us
Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege […]
Do Less in the Pursuit of More in Education
By the time a student gets to college, he’s spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse resume to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he’s prepared – for nothing in particular. — Peter Thiel & Blake Masters, Zero to One The highly competitive nature of college admissions creates a race to the […]