Education & Parenting

Editor’s note: This essay originally was delivered as a presentation at TOS-Con 2019 and retains the quality of the oral presentation. Notes have been added to elaborate certain points and provide citations. Deborah Feldman was born into an orthodox Jewish community in New York City, where she was raised to…

I wonder how much better off my classmates might be today if, at that tender age, they were taught about earning money and spending it according to their own values—rather than about making sacrifices in the name of “virtue.”

In a world where hyper-focus on specialization is leading to greater and greater compartmentalization, this book is a welcome call for a renewed focus on integration.

Broadcasting live on Facebook from rainy New York City, Andrew “The Education Guy” Bernstein launched a campaign to fix the American education system.

Not only are eco-alarmists destroying the lives of children, but they are unashamedly using them as fodder to attack human flourishing and the freedom that makes it possible.

Thanks to innovators in the fields of education and career development, many viable alternatives to college provide far more bang for the buck.

We want our children to live wonderful, happy lives. How can we help them to become independent thinkers and rational decision makers so they will?

This film shows what a proper, conceptual education looks like, and it provides parents and educators with a reason to seek or create this kind of learning environment.

Here’s a powerful tool and mnemonic for teaching children to think for themselves and to disobey adults when that’s the right thing to do.

Thousands of students who had been written off as “unteachable” were able to lead meaningful, productive lives because one woman refused to give up on them.