Álvaro Sánchez Sojo

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

@wallstwolverine Por lo menos salen a la calle…

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

That's because this dude doesn't know what education is.

He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves.

Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a machine for a task, could be expected to do one task for his whole life.

A gentleman, or even a freeman of the lower classes, was not a machine for labor, but a person who could be expected to act in his own interests, and thus would need to do many different things throughout his life, depending on what served his goals at the time.

And he would need to be able to independently learn these tasks, rather than needing to be taught them in childhood.

Therefore if a boy was to formally educated, that might include some of gentleman's skills (riding, fighting with a sword, the management of finances), but his education was centered around what education really meant:

A fundamental grounding in how to live and thrive as an independent and free-willed person.

Thus, he was taught the seven liberal arts of classical antiquity:

- Arithmetic
- Geometry
- Music
- Astronomy
- Grammar
- Logic
- Rhetoric

These were not trade skills in the sense that they did not enable the performance of any particular trade or task, but that wasn't the point.

The point was that they taught the young gentleman how to think and learn.

By contrast, modern government schools were founded to train clerks and factory workers at public expense... a servant class with the specific skills necessary to be useful workers, but not the general education to be independent or question their betters?

Have you noticed which two of these arts are utterly absent from a modern government-school "education"?

That's right, logic and rhetoric. Logic is how to arrive at true conclusions from known facts. Rhetoric is how to persuade.

A servant educated in logic might notice that the things he is being told are false. A servant educated in rhetoric might notice the techniques that are being used to persuade him to act in the rulers' interests instead of his own.

If you conceive of your children's education as training in career skills, whether that be growing rice or programming a computer, you are preparing them to be slaves, not free men.

If you properly prepare them to be free men, what skills will be lucrative or useful twenty years from now is irrelevant, because they will be prepared to learn them.

In my opinion, the seven liberal arts of the modern world are:

- Logic: how to derive truth from known facts
- Statistics: how to understand the implications of data
- Rhetoric: how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics
- Research: how to gather information on an unknown subject
- (Practical) Psychology: how to discern and understand the true motives of others
- Investment: how to manage and grow existing assets
- Agency: how to make decisions about what course to pursue, and proactively take action to pursue it.

Notice that you didn't learn any of these things in school, even if you went to a so-called "liberal arts" college. Instead, they taught you things about mitochondria and calculus and symbolism in Jon Steinbeck novels where a boy has a dog, and the dog dies.

That's because liberal arts, whether you define them as I have, or slightly differently, are the arts of the master, the arts that make one a master, and therefore not be taught in a school for slaves.

Worry less about which "career skills" AI will take over, and more about whether you are training to be, and training your kids to be, high-agency, perceptive, self-motivated people who can navigate an unknowable future with an adaptable mind.

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

@Devon_Eriksen_ Love this so much! Thank you!

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

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@JoanGallardo_

[🇨🇾 Fabián C. Barrio @fabiancbarrio]

Con mis mejores deseos. 2024 ES TU AÑO.
https://t.co/aCb758LQa7

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

@hubermanrules @hubermanlab @JoanGallardo_

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

@Raggiomoral @JoanGallardo_

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

@DotCSV A mí lo que me tiene intrigado es el tema de que todos en OpenAI escriben todo en minúsculas... Illuminati confirmed??

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

@HumansNoContext Young Satoshi Nakamoto!?

[Schmidt @schmidt1024]

Soon

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Robin made this short film in the early 80s with director Howard Storm to promote his directing stating, "if he can work with me…he can work with anybody!" This is all improvised. No script, no preparation, just pure Robin Williams.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Feeling angry → Hit the gym

Feeling stuck → Go for a walk

Feeling lethargic → Go for a run

Feeling anxious → Do bodyweight squats to failure

Instead of using food to deal with emotions use exercise instead.

[🇨🇾 Fabián C. Barrio @fabiancbarrio]

"Un hombre malo es capaz de quemar su propia nación hasta los cimientos para poder gobernar sobre sus cenizas"
Sun Tzu. General, estratega militar y filósofo chino, 722–481 a. C.

[Sergio San Juan, Aprendizaje Infinito @_sergiosanjuan]

«La atención es el nuevo cociente intelectual.»
– @GregorioLuri

Acabo de escuchar una entrevista al maestro Gregorio Luri que, aunque enfocada en la educación de los hijos, contiene ideas muy interesantes para los que consideramos el aprendizaje una prioridad en nuestro día a día.

Comparto 8 reflexiones tras escucharla:

1. Para desarrollar el talento: insistencia y capacidad atencional.

2. Las tecnologías se desarrollan más rápido de lo que somos capaces de evaluar sus consecuencias.

3. Criticar lo moderno porque es moderno es igual de estúpido que halagar lo moderno porque es moderno.

4. Las leyes y normas limitan. Los límites dan forma y sentido. El orden (los hábitos) multiplican nuestras capacidades. Para ser libre hay que conocer los deberes.

5. No hay sustituto para los codos. El esfuerzo es condición indispensable en la vida, y en la educación.

6. Aprender es una obligación moral. La ignorancia es un mal al que no hay que darle tregua.

7. La mente es el hogar de los aprendizajes.

8. La atención es la capacidad de retorno, el volver a hacer lo que estás haciendo. El que cultiva su atención, encuentra en Internet una mina de oro.

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

@Raggiomoral Mi padre se compró el CD y ahora tengo ganas de ir a su casa y recuperarlo.

Por cierto, los anuncios de los 80 y principio de los 90 eran ASMR puro.

[LO + @SuperViiral]

🇬🇧 Tranquility is what you are looking for most

El niño de la piscina de Teruel no faltaba a las clases de inglis por la tarde

[alp @alpacasw]

@MartyBent

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

@TuurDemeester

[Álvaro Sánchez Sojo @asanchezsojo]

@elpais_economia Lo peor es que posteen hoy una noticia que se publicó el 18/08 com si fuera actual...

[Don Antoño @AntonioGoBe]

Paco de Lucía vivió 67 años. De pequeño, su padre lo obligaba a tocar la guitarra 14 horas al día. Hoy, todos lo consideramos el mejor guitarrista de la historia.

En 1988 le entrevistaron en Buenos Aires y soltó 5 perlas cada 4 palabras.

En este hilo te traigo las mejores.