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Mr. Ranedeer: Your personalized AI tutor.

This is a prompt that lets you create an AI tutor that’s customized to your depth of knowledge, learning style, and even tone. Want a tutor who engages you in debates? Cool. How about an encouraging tutor instead? Can do! ~ learn […]

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How Harvard careerism killed the classroom.

Where have all the poets gone? “As Harvard transitioned from a patrician school to a seemingly meritocratic one, students increasingly began to view their degrees as financial investments, attempting to maximize return while limiting downside risk. It is this new, […]

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All people are created educable.

“Many in the 18th c. who thought democracy was absurd rejected it because they disagreed with this thesis, believing that the majority of people (even of white men) were not educable, i.e. that even with educational resources most people were […]

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On aristocratic tutoring.

The language is casual, but the ideas and reasoning are sharp. “It’s no secret that school sux. It’s not that tutoring is good, it’s that mechanized schooling is really bad. If we got rid of formal 20th century K-12 education, […]

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School vs Wikipedia.

“So, for the last three years, teachers have been telling my kids that they can’t use Wikipedia for any school work.” | learn more