"There has never been a better time to be a kid who wants to figure something out. I think the best we can do as parents is help them figure out what that something is, and then give them every opportunity to pursue it. At some point, that means letting them outgrow what you can do for them finding other people who are as obsessed as they are."
While my almost college-aged kids wouldn't like HAA, I think it's great for those kids it does work for. Rethinking what school can be (or should be) will lead to more enriching experiences, instead of brand chasing, which higher ed tends to be for a sizable section of our country.
" I’d say the thing I’m grateful for, and I don’t really have the ability to take much credit for it, is just somehow I never lost my innate childhood curiosity.
And I think this is something that I like, when I met your kids and they’re just playing around and imagining stuff on the playground in Brooklyn, it’s like, everyone was kind of like that at some point, right? Like, almost all of us had some way we were playing with imaginary forts and imagining a future that didn’t exist or imagining a world that didn’t exist and kind of putting our headspace into it. "
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So glad that someone didn't lose it!
There's been at least one ( probably more that I haven't surfaced yet ) re: how schooling completely drains this curiosity out of kids, starting right from the firsr gate. Yet, many parents, being totally unaware of the phenomenon, keep enrolling their kids in the same tired system.
If anyone sees/reads this + would like to ideate over this point, glad to. I can dig up that study and/or re-trace how I found it via ... ta-dum, AI! :)
Truly an enlightening read! As much as uni coming undone seems such a bleak prospect yet I can only hope our kids fare far better in new settings with AI very much in their backyard
Well done guys... Turns out it really does matter....
Great piece.
Loved this:
"There has never been a better time to be a kid who wants to figure something out. I think the best we can do as parents is help them figure out what that something is, and then give them every opportunity to pursue it. At some point, that means letting them outgrow what you can do for them finding other people who are as obsessed as they are."
While my almost college-aged kids wouldn't like HAA, I think it's great for those kids it does work for. Rethinking what school can be (or should be) will lead to more enriching experiences, instead of brand chasing, which higher ed tends to be for a sizable section of our country.
Wonderful piece. Thank you. Lots of good wisdom! Very excited to see the HAA experiment.
Great read, Packy. Zero is another new interesting model I'm excited to keep my eye on: https://www.zero.university/
" I’d say the thing I’m grateful for, and I don’t really have the ability to take much credit for it, is just somehow I never lost my innate childhood curiosity.
And I think this is something that I like, when I met your kids and they’re just playing around and imagining stuff on the playground in Brooklyn, it’s like, everyone was kind of like that at some point, right? Like, almost all of us had some way we were playing with imaginary forts and imagining a future that didn’t exist or imagining a world that didn’t exist and kind of putting our headspace into it. "
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So glad that someone didn't lose it!
There's been at least one ( probably more that I haven't surfaced yet ) re: how schooling completely drains this curiosity out of kids, starting right from the firsr gate. Yet, many parents, being totally unaware of the phenomenon, keep enrolling their kids in the same tired system.
If anyone sees/reads this + would like to ideate over this point, glad to. I can dig up that study and/or re-trace how I found it via ... ta-dum, AI! :)
Truly an enlightening read! As much as uni coming undone seems such a bleak prospect yet I can only hope our kids fare far better in new settings with AI very much in their backyard