Corporate-Educational Complex
Apr 22, 2024If the universities are the temples, the corporations are its priests....
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do we play the game, or does it play us?
Truth of Academia
Mar 11, 2024Faith in something doesn’t collapse all at once. It erodes in bits and chunks, like icebergs breaking off the coast of Antarctica. At Stanford, my faith in the way of th...
Orientation Week
Mar 1, 2024When I arrived at Stanford, I thought I’d meet the best and the brightest. That was not what I found....
Princeton, the Temple
May 3, 2023Stepping inside the temple gates of Princeton University, I felt an ancient feeling, as the world melted away....
Halo of Prestige
Apr 27, 2023Like many kids, I chased prestige my whole life. But what exactly is it?...
Match This Pattern
Apr 24, 2023In third grade I took an IQ test that changed my life....
Truth in the Bathtub
Apr 19, 2023From childhood to adulthood to old age to death. This was the moment I realized that everyone dies....
Gold Stars
Apr 18, 2023I remember the gold stars I used to get as a kid – but now I know what they really meant....
Two Faces of Math
Apr 13, 2023We worship math today with all the wisdom of a rote ritual, as incantations in a language we don’t understand and steps we assiduously follow, lest the magic cease to work....
Creative Cogs
Apr 12, 2023Why do we suck the creativity out of kids?...
The Right Answer
Apr 11, 2023We are trained in school to search for the Right Answer all our lives. Where does it come from?...
The Game of Grades
Apr 10, 2023Grades are the first time we see people being separated by intellectual ability. We see them getting ranked, one above the other, in very clear, objective seeming ways....
Real Education
Apr 7, 2023How did we become soulless cogs, dancing to the beat of the corporate machine? What went wrong? The indoctrination begins early. It begins as soon as we are old enough t...
The Best and The Brightest
Mar 31, 2023The first person I remember calling me that out loud was my high school janitor. It was towards the end of senior year, a couple hours after school had let out, and I wa...