joshuago’s education Bookmarks

Rebellion without a rigorous alternative vision is just a feeble spasm.

Mindless servility to technology for its own sake will make things worse, not better.

For most of our history, children have started their internships when they were seven, not 27.

More dynamic textbooks aren’t the solution to the problem of education — they’re not even the solution to the problem of textbooks.

We force so much structured work onto our young people that they lose all opportunity to take part in the arguably more important “unstructured work”, the tinkering and hacking that once made us the leaders of the industrial world.

Since writing is such a cognitively intense task, the key to becoming faster is to develop strategies to make writing literally less mind-blowing.

Of all the events that engage people at work, the single most important — by far — is simply making progress in meaningful work.

An accessible overview to help you keep Hobbes, Rousseau, and Locke straight in your head. Includes a nice introduction to the philosophy of John Rawls, too; the Scandinavian political system and expectations are modeled after ideas put forth by Rawls.

Learning depends on reading as a practice of immersion in thought and feeling.

Software is eating much of the value chain of industries that are widely viewed as primarily existing in the physical world.