Schools, teachers, students, curriculum, self-education, learning how to learn, science and math.
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A provocative meditation on why cats—and self-taught learners—see through the illusion of modern education. This piece dismantles the cult of brand-name universities and…
A searing field manual from someone the system wrote off—exposing how education, debt, and work form a pipeline of controlled poverty, and how the only exit is the one nobody…
An essay that argues traditional high‑school education is outdated and often harmful, especially for students who already have social connections and hobbies. It explains how…
The post juxtaposes a chilling monologue from a cynical teacher detailing the systematic destruction of student curiosity with a defiant manifesto of psychological resilience and…
A polemic essay denouncing the current school system as a profit‑driven, coercive institution that compromises education for teachers' paychecks. It argues that genuine learning…
A former teacher watches a society that has stripped away true learning and replaced it with hollow competency frameworks. As libraries become neon‑lit "experience centers," a…
The essay explores the hypothesis that the gravitational influence of ancient globular clusters passing near our solar system could periodically perturb the Oort cloud,…
The text advocates for reclaiming one's potential through self-directed learning and the use of AI in programming to build independent, automated systems while escaping the…
The post lays out a personal multi‑device backup‑and‑reset plan with virtual machines and containers, then proposes building an AI‑driven, JavaScript‑free, text‑only web service…
A call for self‑taught programming powered by AI—arguing that taking responsibility for one’s own learning will lift a person above the mediocrity of school, politics, and…
The post reflects on humanity’s loss of prehistory over half‑a‑million years of small, fragile groups, and urges readers—especially those in the US—to pack for multi‑year trail…
In the era of AI, cheap home programming teams show that learning to code is vital, while real education—not GPA frauds—must give students genuine skills and creativity for a…
A generation armed with boundless information and AI-powered simulations must learn to think independently and build “great beings” by turning the play of choice into real-world…
Grades are presented as true measures of ability but are actually engineered lies to rank students; the essay urges adults to reclaim their learning by believing in themselves…
The poem argues that our schooling system trains us to obey rather than to think, so from childhood we learn to follow instructions without understanding them, become “servants”…
I challenged an open‑source AI to teach me a “filter graph” language—a deliberately corrupted system that mirrors stenography’s shorthand—hoping the machine would update my…
Vesto Slipher, a Celdraxis astronomer dispatched to study Earth, uses the clunky alias “Melvin App” to observe human customs, astronomy, and the humorously bureaucratic nature of…
This essay argues that deliberate policy choices—anti‑literacy laws, curriculum design, and poverty—have historically created systems of ignorance from the U.S. South to…
Using the 1975 pet‑rock craze as a case study, the author shows that our survival‑oriented, pattern‑seeking brains make us prone to self‑deception, but with proper education we…
The “Cognitive Sovereignty Amendment” proclaims every person’s unalienable right to an autonomous mind, forbids deliberate manipulation of thoughts and beliefs by any entity, and…
The poem is a reflective call to parents, urging them to recognize how their own habits—handing down broken plans, silencing questions, and delegating learning to impersonal…
A 16‑year‑old coder traces the Sun’s sibling stars backward through galactic motion using Gaia data and custom code, hoping to locate its birth cluster and other solar systems…
The post argues that education and culture are inseparable languages that must be preserved; it contrasts “side‑loaded” cultures (religion, slavery, forced political systems)…
