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
Entrepreneurship needs it scientific method. We are building it. The post Entrepreneurship Is Still Where Science Was in 1600 first appeared on Anand Sanwal.| Anand Sanwal
The boldest education experiment in 20 years just got a sequel.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
I'm going to start this essay with an ask. Please invest 5:57 watching the video below. It's from 1966. In it, the BBC asked kids what life would be like in 2000. It's worth it for their responses (and their dope British accents). I'll see you below after you've watched. What struck you? I was| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Semi-random thoughts on entrepreneurship, education and other miscellaneous.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
School is a drug we force kids to take 180 days a year for 13 years. It is malpractice. What if we tried something that actually works? The post Entrepreneuring Is the Best Natural Lab for Learning first appeared on Anand Sanwal.| Anand Sanwal
Being reasonable and responsible kills ambition. The post Not Yet first appeared on Anand Sanwal.| Anand Sanwal
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
Schools spent billions teaching kids to code. Now CS grads can't find jobs. LOL. The post We Got Bamboozled by the Teach Kids to Code Hype first appeared on Anand Sanwal.| Anand Sanwal
Everyone knows small class sizes are better. Everyone is wrong. The research is devastating. The post The Student-Teacher Ratio Scam first appeared on Anand Sanwal.| Anand Sanwal
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
This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F'ing up the status quo and fixing education. Wanted to follow-up on my summary of the excellent and incisive Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz with my 10 favorite quotes from the book. Deresiewicz's skewering of the Ivy League / elite education is| 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
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
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
As we build The School of Entrepeneuring, we've realized that the fundamental challenge in education today isn't about content or delivery — it's about the problems we ask students to solve. These problems aren't just dull — they're dangerously irrelevant. The result is that we're boring kids to death and honing obsolete skills while the| 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
The My First Million MBA: High School Entrepreneurs Edition| anandsanwal.me
As I research the most effective instructional approaches are for The School of Entrepreneuring, I've been amazed (maybe dismayed is a better word) by how much jargon, confusion and overlap there is among these philosophies. As I talk to teachers, administrators, school founders, etc, one will tell me about the great success they're having with| Anand Sanwal
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
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
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
"Take one step at a time," they said, "and eventually, you'll reach the top, where all your dreams come true." The children grew up learning to climb. They were taught to climb as quickly as possible.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Imagine a school where the number of books checked out from the library is used to judge the school’s literacy efforts. Absurd, right? Yet this mirrors the reality in many American government schools today (note: my focus is on public, government-funded middle and high schools). A conversation with a brilliant public school teacher recently illuminated| 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
As we build The School of Entrepeneuring, we've realized that the fundamental challenge in education today isn't about content or delivery — it's about the problems we ask students to solve. These problems aren't just dull — they're dangerously irrelevant. The result is that we're boring kids to death and honing obsolete skills while the…| Anand Sanwal
