Archive - Renaissance Educator

How great minds were once formed

Learning that has stood the test of time and why school stifles this

Aug 13 •

July 2025

Don't fly too low

The antidote to stagnation is a curriculum of ambition.

Jul 17 •

Where greatness is banned

An education that fears heroes inevitably produces citizens who fear the future

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Beyond Bezos and the Google Founders

building the largest open source dataset of Montessori alumni, weekend side-project edition

Jun 4 •

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May 2025

Contrarianism is the new alpha

How to think (and raise kids) differently in a conformist world

May 7 •

April 2025

Agency is eating credentialism

Having high agency is a personal moat in the future of work and life

Apr 24 •

Microschools are creating more choice in education

The decentralized movement poised to solve some of education's biggest problems

Apr 17 •

On cello, cantonese, and learning from scratch

The case for self-directed learning and discoveries as an adult beginner

Apr 10 •

AI and the future of writing instruction

How AI exposes the fragile state of writing instruction, and what to do about it

Apr 3 •

March 2025

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