We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

Samizdata quote of the day – in praise of aristocratic tutoring

Today, tutoring is seen mostly as a corrective to failures within the bureaucratic structures of education, like an intervention to help out a course, grade, or test. In general, those doing well in school don’t get tutoring—it’s like we’re applying the secret genius sauce solely to the kids who aren’t going to be geniuses.

Erik Hoel

Interesting essay, well worth reading the whole thing.

1 comment to Samizdata quote of the day – in praise of aristocratic tutoring

  • Stonyground

    I tend to stand in awe of those who are responsible for designing and producing our modern tech. My phone, my sports watch, my digital piano, movie and music streaming. There must be some exceptionally clever people working away to make this stuff happen. Genius level? I’m not sure, but certainly pretty clever.

    I’m not sure I would include Karl Marx among that list of genius minds. A very original thinker certainly but also very wrong and responsible for an incalculable amount of human misery.

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