Tutoring: The Human Superpower
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What are Music Lessons Really About? Interview with Bella Issakova
In this episode, I interview Bella Issakova who has been a violin tutor for the last 30 years and has had a relationship with tutoring going back to when she was 4 and a half learning music in…
Dutch Rise and Fall, American Rise and Fall--Part 1
Why is the rise and the decline of the USA so much like the rise and the decline of the Dutch Republic in the 1600s? The 1900s will probably always be remembered by historians as the American…
Why did Italy Give Us the Renaissance.... and Fascism?
Watch on Youtube for those who prefer visual aids to go with the audio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2iR9d8XVuE How can the same country that gave us the Renaissance also give us Fascism?…
What Explains China's Rise, Fall, and Rise Again?
Check out the YouTube video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlTBjsYuZWI In this series, we're taking a big step back in order to look at education as a force in the big picture of humanity.…
Did Americans Really Stop Getting Smarter?
This episode is also on youtube. You can view that video at this link: https://youtu.be/B8B7pdyLWvk Since 1980, have Americans been getting more educated, less educated, or just holding steady? How…
The Pattern
It seems like we're in unprecedented times. And yet, if we stand back and look at the bigger picture, our historical moment is not nearly as unique as we think it is. The USA and much of the western…
Kindezi Reflections
In 2010, Kathleen Jones and I, Giles Leeper, cofounded a charter school in Atlanta called The Kindezi School. By having just six students per class and splitting them into smaller groups, this school…
Our Superpower in a Time of Crisis
The teen suicide rate rose by 57% in the decade before the COVID19 pandemic. The US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, thinks "the defining health crisis of our time" is not COVID: it's the mental…
The Art of Talking with Children
Conversations with children have a great deal of power. In fact, even simple conversations are an important dimension of our human superpower. The science is unambiguous. Children who have a lot of…
The Forgotten Education Revolution of West Virginia
Did you know there was a grassroots, bottom up education revolution in West Virginia? There really was. How did it happen? What did it change? And what were the consequences of it for average West…
Mindreading
A lot of skillful parenting and teaching depends on our ability to see the world through a child's eyes. In this episode, we'll speak with Dr. Ian Apperly, author of the book, Mindreaders: The…
Where to Find Millions of Brilliant Tutors
To unleash our superpower would most likely require millions more educators than we have. So where will they come from? In this episode, we’ll explore how to find millions of tutors who are even…
The Cost of Tutoring
A lot of people agree that tutoring is how most children learn best. But they see it as too expensive to consider making available at the mass scale. Despite years of searching, I've never found a…
The Evolution of Tutoring
Tutoring was not invented; it evolved. It evolved for a purpose. Even though it has never been free, in some circumstances, it has been worth the cost since the dawn of humanity. That purpose and…
“This system probably isn’t going to be a good fit for your son”
A father and son share a story about a seemingly harmless decision that set the son on a disastrous path in their local public school and what they did about it. With guests, Jeremy and Isaiah Lewis,…
Parental Tutoring Changes Brains: Interview with Dr. Stuart Hammond
Why do parents have such a big impact on which kids succeed in school and beyond? One of the answers has to do with a simple but poorly understood concept called “parental scaffolding”.…
Timmy Matthews Can Learn
Why do so many smart people find it hard to learn in classrooms? Why can’t an education system that was good enough for our grandparents be good enough for us? The first episode addresses some of the…
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For the last three centuries, American communities have been amongst the most educationally radical in the world. The colonial education movement in the 18th century, the common schools movement in…
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Tutoring: The Human Superpower has published 18 episodes since May 2024, covering topics in Education, History.
Tutoring: The Human Superpower is currently moderate with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 25m.
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