Have you ever seen a strider balance bike? They're bikes where kids move along Flintstone style with just their feet and without pedals. They advance themselves by just pushing off with their feet (what's called "striding"). This teaches them mastery of the most important part of riding a bike which is balance. Once they have| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Building the Schools of Entrepreneuring doesn't mean rejecting established wisdom. Homework - here I come.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
News is the Coca-Cola of information—mental junk food we force-feed students. Learn why teaching current events harms education and why historical pattern recognition creates truly informed thinkers.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
The book that has caused the most arguments b/w my wife and I is "The Case Against Education" by Bryan Caplan (highly recommend) I believe our kids should not go to college and have used lines and arguments from this book with her Notes: 1. The book's thesis is actually not advocating against college 2.| Anand Sanwal
We've built an education system that actively fights against how teenage brains work, then wonder why students disengage.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
The reality is that grades have served their purpose and it's time to move on if we want actual learning.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
The way we teach in our schools has been putting kids to sleep for 1000 years. Peer instruction is a teaching method pioneered by Harvard professor Dr Eric Mazur. It is criminally under appreciated.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Schools should NOT exist to train children to be compliant and conforming employees and consumers. Education should help develop students into independent-thinking explorers, leaders and problem-solvers.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
