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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.
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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.
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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.
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The U.S. Department of Education has launched the Presidential 1776 Award, a new national competition recognizing high school students for outstanding knowledge of civics and America’s founding principles.
ALT Presidential 1776 Award Celebrates Student Excellence in Civics
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The upside of having a home library: When the reader is ready, the book will appear.
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!
“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”
