Let the Kids Cheat » Anand Sanwal
Your kid is cheating with AI. And that's great. Here’s why we should let it burn.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Your kid is cheating with AI. And that's great. Here’s why we should let it burn.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Education reform is disconnected from reality. We need more people focused on bypassing the current system.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
The boldest education experiment in 20 years just got a sequel.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Overprotective middle and upper-middle class parents are 1 of the problems of our schools. Control the helicopters.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
We say teachers shape the future, then pay them like baristas. Here's how we make teaching prestigious again.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Banning phones in schools misses the actual problem.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Your kid isn’t lazy. School is just fake. We’ve stripped learning of meaning, and wonder why students won’t ‘engage’ with busywork. The problem isn’t them—it’s the theater.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Grades and GPAs are dead currency. In the Proof Economy, your kid’s future depends on one thing: what they’ve actually built.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
We forgot to define the goal of education. Here's a proposal on what the 4 goals of education should be.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Subject-based learning is is not designed to maximize learning or create innovative thinkers. It is about compliance.| 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
Why kids' YouTube dreams aren't shallow—they're rational adaptations to a changing economic landscape.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Probability & statistics should replace calculus as the focus of high school math education, offering students immediately useful skills for understanding risk, detecting misleading claims, and making better decisions in an increasingly data-driven world.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Financial literacy without real-world money experience is as ineffective as teaching swimming with PowerPoint slides. A critical look at classroom finance education.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
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
Teaching practical skills isn't just about handiness—it's about building better thinkers and students.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Our efforts to make young people hate reading are working. We should probably try something else.| 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
"Equity language" has done nothing to improve education. It is a sophisticated way to derail meaningful conversation.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Grade inflation is the worst, most cancerous type of inflation in the USA right now.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy and require universities to underwrite loans| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
By high school, 2/3 of students are disengaged in school - a mass exodus of minds. And we're not doing shit about it.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
How elite education creates high-achieving but risk-averse students who struggle to think for themselves.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Like ghost kitchens that exist only on delivery apps, these nonprofits exist only on college applications.| 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
This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F'ing up the status quo and fixing education. In the grand theater of American higher education, few performances are as anticipated—or as controversial—as the annual unveiling of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Like a high-stakes beauty pageant for academia,| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F’ing up the status quo and fixing education. Here's a thought that might change how you view the American education system: Most of what passes for educational progress is actually a sophisticated form of distraction. The ancient Romans had a term for this: "bread| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F'ing up the status quo and fixing education. Here's a puzzle: how do you create a trillion-dollar debt bubble that can't be popped? Answer: make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Now, here's a trickier one: how do you fix this mess when| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
