Alec Resnick

working to start a different kind of university

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

OK, via prompt by @vgr, 1 like = 1 opinion about unschooling https://t.co/G15hNMwmXE …maybe more.

[Venkatesh Rao ☀️ @vgr]

@aresnick unschooling

[Susan Swartz @beadmomsw]

Aaron Swartz should/would be 39 years old today.

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

@nikillinit I'm fond of Lant Pritchett's "Normative-as-Positive Fallacy" framing for this pattern, e.g. in education policy (via https://t.co/48bficRhIr)

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

@nwilliams030 Maimonides! https://t.co/HV1QZTPytS

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

https://t.co/KReMrQsWfv

[Aaron Swartz @aaronsw]

Philip Diehl, the most respected U.S. Mint director America's ever had, joins the campaign to #mintthecoin: http://t.co/g6gpcIPR

[Susan Swartz @beadmomsw]

12 years. RIP my darling boy.

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

@oznova_ @justinskycak Appreciate the prompt! Real indictment of the field that it’s not a front-and-center discourse in the “progressive” scene, IMO!

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

@oznova_ Honestly I think that would be a nice exercise, especially with some careful prompting around “powerful”. Both by example and by definition!

But I think the listing would be inert for the novice, yes 😋

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

@oznova_ @justinskycak /fin. OK I have to run! Always happy to chat about this stuff; thank you both for the prompt!

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

@oznova_ @justinskycak …But at the end of the day (in my experience), that treatment doesn't really change anything structural, and often leaves people and institutions back where they started. I think C. Wright Mills' had a good angle on an analogous dynamic here (via https://t.co/6AeaUdckHA)