Caine’s Arcade and the Beauty of Creativity
As a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, I often get into arguments with other graduate students over the necessity and effectiveness of compulsory, coercive education. Not...
View ArticleIt’s Time for a New Education Model
Despite revolutionary innovations in most industries (e.g., communications, medicine, transportation) over the past two hundred years that have forced firms to continuously adapt and improve in order...
View ArticleMy Educational Philosophy
This is a writeup of my educational philosophy for a joint venture I’m beginning to work with. Enjoy! Antonio has always believed that education is the key that can open up a world of opportunity to...
View ArticleShould We Encourage Learning Through Rewards?
Educators have long wondered how they can get their students to learn more efficiently and to do well on the tests that are placed in front of them. And when the goal of education is efficiency in the...
View ArticleMemorization
There are endless valid critiques of the status quo, traditional education system, as there should be given the very damaging outcomes that it produces. The status quo, traditional education system is...
View ArticleCompetition should have no place in K-12 education
“Let’s stop the hippy dippy nonsense and teach our kids that the real world sucks and that we need to learn how to deal with it.” Maybe not everyone should get a trophy, but maybe not everyone should...
View ArticleExecutive Functioning and Self-Discipline
Executive functioning has become a popular term to help parents and educators come to terms with their continual failure to get children to perform to standard levels of performance or proficiency,...
View ArticleAbrome Learners are set up for Success in College Admissions
One of the biggest misconceptions people have about opting out of school is that one cannot get into college without a diploma from an accredited high school. Nothing could be further from the truth....
View ArticleAbrome – Emancipated Learning
At the end of 2010, I moved from New York City to Austin, Texas with the vision of helping to grow the alternative education and homeschool movement. One year into it I was going to homeschool...
View ArticleAbrome Learners are set up for Success in their Careers
A societal by-product of compulsory schooling has been the extension of childhood up to and beyond the age of 18; young people have been segregated from society and have been largely stripped of...
View ArticleCollege admissions is not a meritocracy; it is a game
College admissions is not a meritocracy, it is a game. Those who know how to play the game began years ago. They have donated consistently and substantially to their alma maters, they have provided...
View ArticleThere are no shortcuts to leading a remarkable life
Leading a remarkable life is hard work. However, leading an unremarkable life is also hard work. We live in a society where we convince young people that they must play the hyper-competitive game of...
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