On Wonder and the Risk of Knowing: A Note After the Festival of Hope
After the keynote in Beijing, a student asked me: ‘If we can see the stories now — does that make us responsible for changing them?’ This is a note on what that question costs, and why it’s worth paying. Greetings from Beijing! If you are feeling well and life is unfolding in ways your heart […]
What Does It Actually Mean to Teach Economics? (Hint: It’s Not About Supply and Demand)
Most economics education teaches students the rules of a game without asking who wrote the rules, who benefits from them, or whether we might want to play something else entirely. A provocation for educators at all levels. Greetings from Beijing! If you are feeling well and life is unfolding in ways your heart hoped for, […]
The Velvet Cage: How Schools Train Students to Accept Their Own Diminishment
We’ve built schools that feel caring and look beautiful while quietly reproducing the very inequalities they claim to disrupt. A long read on what it means to educate inside a system that rewards compliance over curiosity. Greetings from Beijing! If you are feeling well and life is unfolding in ways your heart hoped for, I […]