Saurabh Saxena

Parent| 3X Edtech Entrepreneur | Life Design Coach

Building a Hogwarts-like real-world learning environment for children.

[Ankur Warikoo @warikoo]

I spoke about this recently on a podcast and believe that this is inevitable.

People are shocked at the possibility of this outcome. In the last 200-odd years, we have been so conditioned to think of work as our dominant purpose that the concept of universal basic or high income without work sounds dystopian (and not utopian).

Humans were never meant to show up to work in the manner that billions are forced to every day.
We were meant to pursue interests, build things, connect with people, understand ourselves, and debate aimlessly.

What is classified as unproductive today was how the average person grew intellectually, morally, and spiritually a few centuries back.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

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[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

Beautiful!!

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

I was reading Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground with a group of 9th graders. One student announced, "There is no way someone could actually feel like this on the inside."

A classmate replied: "I feel like this every day." The first student was stunned. His understanding of reality shifted in that moment. Literature had done what it's supposed to do: reveal that other people live entirely within different internal worlds.

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

@zarazhangrui By not educating them, by getting out of the way. By not feeling we are responsible for their so called “education”!

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

"Teenagers" didn't exist until the twentieth century. Before that, young people joined adult life by twelve or thirteen. They worked the farm or apprenticed in a trade. They weren't coddled or warehoused.

You rarely see adolescent rebellion in a traditional village because there are no adolescents. There are children and adults. Children become adults by doing adult work.

What we call "teenage rebellion" is often a reaction to being told to sit still through years of meaningless, compulsory schooling. Lock proud young men in a room and ask them to copy vocabulary words, and they're going to rebel. Then we call their rebellion a "problem," diagnose them, and funnel them into the school-to-prison pipeline.

We create the behavior we claim to fear, then punish kids for it.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

I created a charter school in Angel Fire, New Mexico - a town of maybe fifteen hundred people. When a kid got in serious trouble, I could talk to the judge or the chief of police.

We could talk like human beings and decide when to crack down and when to cut a kid slack.

That discretion is the difference between a community and a bureaucracy.

Scale is dangerous. The bigger the system, the less human it becomes. The less discretion people have. The more it becomes a compliance machine.

Public school operates like a religion in the United States. Reverence. Assumption of goodness. The idea that questioning it makes you anti-child or anti-teacher.

When something has a halo, you stop inspecting it. I want parents to inspect it.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

If your child becomes a voracious reader, 80% of the educational work is already done. I read 200-page books every night at age 10. Today I read research articles for fun.

Most knowledge people think requires formal schooling can be gained through reading, audiobooks, or quality YouTube content, if you're judicious about what you consume.

[Karl Mehta @karlmehta]

The real reason some people have unbreakable willpower…

Isn't discipline.

It's a brain structure most people have never heard of. It only grows when you suffer. And it might predict how long you live.

Here's what Stanford neuroscientists discovered: 🧵

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

https://t.co/1I9ppLFkRv

#education #schools #Revolution #creativity #parenting

[Siddha Performance @KapilGuptaMD]

10 ways to become happy

5 things you should never do

6 ways to boost your income

The morning routines of influencers

The incredible new hack

The power of vulnerability

First principles

Mental models

Meditation apps . .

Humans have an unlimited appetite

For empty chases.

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

Will you deliver the message to Garcia? on The Teenverse https://t.co/N4Tyv2rcd9

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

Reimagine Yourself! on The Teenverse https://t.co/VLf7qg9TXw

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

Why should you get a coach? on The Teenverse https://t.co/yPiYJgzbXm

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

3 most important mental models for teenagers on The Teenverse https://t.co/YuHgnrix6h

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

@pratikpoddar @Revv_India Wow, I was about to book a car for this weekend. Thanks @pratikpoddar for a timely warning!

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

Thanks a lot @Unibrowverse for this great coverage! We @explore_uable are confident that private high value communities for teens is the future of learning, skill development and life design!

[Mansi Verma @MansiVjourno]

In the age of Insta, can Uable's bet on private clubs for teenagers pay off?

Read my feature on Former Vedantu co-founder @Saurabh_Learn's startup Uable - a social networking and skill development platform for teenagers only! 👇

https://t.co/lAx5kMjy06

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

The rocket ain't gonna fly by itself! on The Teenverse https://t.co/9b7kdWhI03

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

What if you designed a school? on The Teenverse https://t.co/4WIV6RxuSe

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

@chrismanfrank Can't agree more @chrismanfrank Everything that education system needs today has mostly been done before and forgotten, just tech enabling it better, wider and deeper is what is needed!

[Saurabh Saxena @Saurabh_Learn]

@bapnaa @terradotdo Congrats to you Anshuman Sir and team! This is truly inspirational. Building a community driven business myself, your story serves as even a deeper inspiration for entrepreneurs like me and others who are on tough missions like these. Infinite power to you guys!