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Advice for smart, right-leaning zoomers
This post is from friend of mine whom I met at a right wing conference. He’s very intelligent and funny, I thought a lot of these tips were very good, some I hadn’t heard before. I am doing most of them pretty well and am beginning to find a path for m... (open.substack.com) posted 3mo ago with 4 replies politics lifestyle education

Advice for smart, ri

Here's a piece of advice: if you haven't already, drop everything you are doing, fly to Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia or some other hellhole, and spend a month there to take it all in. 2mo ago

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No to conventional education
I was thinking , connecting to how it would be better to educate a young prince, on how to get a better and more rounded education than conventional. More and more people every year are getting non-conventional education, many are homeschooled, others just... posted 4mo ago with 3 replies education

No to conventional e

First, I agree with most of what you say, though I want to make a case for classical languages like Greek or Latin as the natural means to learn the first three.... 4mo ago

First, I agree with

Education trough University or not
I think more and more people have realised in recent years that you don't need a university degree to be well-rounded and highly educated there is (of course) big resistance. What would be the steps to make this more societally acceptable? Not only would t... posted 4mo ago with 2 replies learning education

Education trough Uni

You would have to be able to incentivize convergence on the truth, without making it profitable to do so. In other words, truth has to be the underlying fundamental motive and principle of coordination, rather than money or opinions. In that way money woul... 4mo ago

You would have to be

Creating Top Tier Educational Institutions Once Again
Harvard... posted 4mo ago with 2 replies education

Creating Top Tier Ed

The SSC articles on Hungarian education are pretty interesting. This one is about a homeschooling regimen that produced chess grandmasters:... 4mo ago

The SSC articles on

How would we educate a young prince?
In another thread we considered whether a more intelligent population would have fewer social problems. Some comments brought out the intriguing idea that for matters of the functionality of society, structure and regime and therefore education may matter ... posted 6mo ago with 10 replies education

How would we educate

Good read. I've noticed how I'm drawn away from academia that has gone vapid and mainstream towards religion that has a core group of people refining the craft. 5mo ago

Good read. I've noti

Pedagogy
One characteristic I've observed with non-parents in our circles is that they have strong opinions about pedagogy and child-rearing (despite having zero firsthand knowledge of anything other than their own childhoods and a lot of extremist literature).... posted 10mo ago with 6 replies ideology learning education

Pedagogy

Sample lesson kernel which can encompass many winding detours: The Collatz Conjecture.... 9mo ago

Sample lesson kernel

What would you like to teach your kids (that you did not know yourself at the age of majority)? / Clear guidance for sons
I am being selfish. I think there will be some dedicated fathers reading this. I would like to hear your opinions.... posted 12mo ago with 1 reply ideology lifestyle education

What would you like

I have one son so far. I figure the main thing I want for him is the stuff I would want in retrospect for myself:... 12mo ago

I have one son so fa

Based Japanese Education
A few months ago, I encountered one of the most based tweets that I have ever seen. My Japanese is mediocre, so this is largely a machine translation, but I will try to do her writing and the classical poetry justice.... (twitter.com) posted 14mo ago with 6 replies philosophy history education

Based Japanese Educa

There are a few guess for the time of the composition, possibly after the poet was discharged from his duties by the emperor in 744. It would match the mood. I like this version in Taiwanese Hokkien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nuUz0NZJtg.... 14mo ago

There are a few gues

Film Discussion Thread; Movies as a Tool for Society
Discuss movies that have influenced you or are favorites of yours. What movies do you plan to, or already, show your children to help them become intelligent and well-rounded adults?... posted 14mo ago with 8 replies education

Film Discussion Thre

So many good movies. Its a little corny but I love Braveheart: 'They may take our lives, but they'll never take our Freeedooom!' Awesome speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TME0xubdHQc.... 14mo ago

So many good movies.

What are the most important (history, philosophy, etc.) books for the home educator to read?
Think: “things the teacher needs to know so he or she can avoid misleading his or her students”.... posted 1y ago with 14 replies philosophy bookclub education

What are the most im

I wanted to select OP's refinement of the prompt for the newcomers. My interpretation of this prompt is that we want to determine what is important to us, and I think that would start with understanding what the ideological foundations of our current regim... 1y ago

I wanted to select O