Childhoods of Exceptional People
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Childhoods of Exceptional People
Middle-class parents are more likely to pursue a policy of concerted cultivation.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
In play, young mammals learn the skills they will need to be successful as adults, and they learn in the way that neurons like best: from repeated activity with feedback from success and failure in a low-stakes environment.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Aristocratic tutoring was not focused on measurables. Historically, it usually involved a paid adult tutor, who was an expert in the field, spending significant time with a young child or teenager, instructing them but also engaging them in discussions, often in a live-in capacity, fostering both knowledge but also engagement with intellectual subj... See more
Erik Hoel • Why We Stopped Making Einsteins
To make the most of human potential, we must tutor the best and brightest away from the systems and goals that govern broader society. Is that feasible?