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Agency is becoming a hot theme. More in tech circles than education, but it's seeping down. On Twitter and LinkedIn, I'm seeing various people—often tech or tech-adjacent—talking about agency. Sometimes they connect it to education and get excited.
This theme has been central to alternative education for decades. Now it's becoming mainstream. The language is finally catching up to what schools like The Socratic Experience have always understood: children thrive when they have ownership over their learning and their lives.
BYOT! socraticstudy.ai/iliad is live. It's a Socratic companion for the Iliad, not SparkNotes, not a summary, just a conversation to make you actually think about what's happening. Free while I figure out if this is useful to anyone besides me.
Agreed. Enhance your reading of the Illiad with a Socratic guide that has endless patience, link in bio :)
Love another version of AI that forces you to think. Building something similar myself :)
We're partnering with @KhanAcademy to bring a suite of Gemini-powered learning and literacy tools to students, starting with the Writing Coach tool.
Writing Coach doesn’t generate answers or deliver a finished product — it walks students through the process of outlining, drafting and refining their own ideas. #BettUK2026
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“You should read before bed to help you get sleepy.” is the biggest lie I’ve ever been told. I’ll be up until 3am, fully invested.
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Dear Ed Week,
This is 100% wrong, “leave the canon to English majors” is exactly how we lose civilization.
Classical literature is not just harder content. It is liberation. It rips students out of the tiny prison of their own age, their own trends, their own slogans, their own shallow assumptions about what matters. It reminds them the world did not begin with them, and that their feelings are not the measure of truth.
Shakespeare doesn’t teach “skills.” He reveals ambition, lust, betrayal, guilt, and the cost of sin. Homer teaches courage and honor. Augustine exposes the restless heart. Dante shows that loves can be ordered rightly or twisted into ruin. These books give students a map of the soul.
The real enemy isn’t Crime and Punishment. The real enemy is a culture training kids to be bored by silence and incapable of deep thought.
So no, don’t abandon the canon because it’s hard.
It is their way out of the matrix.
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Wife: You’re not buying new books, are you?
Me: Absolutely not. These books were published years ago.
Great list… “If” is such a good one
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We’re readers, of course we live in a constant state of delusion about how many books we will be able to read.
I’m learning so much about the founding documents while building this study tool for students. Now I’m creating a “Citizen” track as well. The kids can’t have ALL the fun.
Agree completely! I originally built the 1776 Award prep just to help me guide my daughter through it and now my mom has joined in too. Three generations learning the founding documents side by side has been amazing.
I want to encourage the moms and dads who are looking for a completely online, hands-off homeschooling program -- please don't.
I don't want to sound harsh, so hear me out...
You might be thinking you're too busy for this homeschool gig, or that you aren't qualified to really be the teacher. You may be looking for an effortless way to get your kids out of public school. I totally understand these feelings. I want your kids out of public school, too.
But let me encourage you to see how the effort is so worth it.
You don't have to have a teaching degree to help your child with math. (Homeschool curriculum always comes with a teacher guide, and the answers!) You don't have to remember your world history to dig into exciting history lessons with your children. (Most homeschooling parents are astounded at how much they like history now that they have access to great resources!) You don't have to remember how to diagram sentences to oversee grammar lessons. (Remember: answer key!)
While most kids are certainly capable of muddling through online lessons, that doesn't make them fun, or meaningful, or memorable. Children need YOU. They need accountability, encouragement, and very often they need a bit of help. Even the most "complete" software is no replacement for a parent.
I know this concept is foreign in a society that sends children off to be educated by someone else. It's a completely different mindset to be the educator. But moms and dads, you can --- and should --- be the educator. Even if you utilize online curriculum or video curriculum, be involved. Watch some lessons together. Check their work yourself. Discuss some of the topics. Add some family reading into the mix. Study the BIble together. Make it relational.
Well said: we like what we're good at.
That's exactly why Socratic learning works so well, from math to civics.
$250k in prizes for knowing the founding documents. Worth a look if you've got a high schooler.
Attention parents and teachers of high schoolers!
Encourage your students to enter the Presidential 1776 Award civics competition, testing students in grades 9-12 on our nation's founding history: presidential1776award.org/ #America250
