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CELTA-certified ESL teacher. I like teaching and learning about learning. I believe in the transformative power of EdTech. #esl #elt #edtech #lang

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

One of the most evil things imaginable to me

[🎮 @foreeeeeal]

great time to get an english degree honestly nobody can read or write you might become scribe to the king in the next 15 years if you know cursive the way things are going

[purple🍃✨ @doseofpurple_]

George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.

It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.

[Owere, The Wandering Writer @__Conpoet]

About this substack issue, I think more people should write personal essays not shitty articles.

Write about your life, tribe, career, poems, interests, language and maybe shitty opinions not a piss poor attempt at societal issues with or no research.

[David Perell @david_perell]

I think about this YouTube comment almost every day

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

Schools would be a lot better if they just stayed in their lane, focused on academics, and stopped trying to solve every societal problem

[Aakanksha @aakancvedi]

Something strange is happening in India

Private Equity firms like KKR, Kedaara, Apollo, etc are pouring billions of dollars in Indian schools!

But here's why it is weird, schools in India are required to be non profits by law!

So why are PE funds investing in them?

1/7

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Schools exist to support families, not replace parents.

That means parents need to actually parent, and the govt & communities need to stop treating schools as the fix for bad parenting.

If you’re an educator who thinks otherwise, you’ve watched too many teacher hero movies.

[Mini Nair @minicnair]

This is why investing in public education is a must in India.

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

In honour of Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi winning the Booker Prize, I am giving away one copy of Heart Lamp!

To participate in the giveaway simply RT this tweet. @bookworm_Kris will send the copy to one winner selected at random.

Winner to be announced at 4 pm, 21 May! 📚✨❤️

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

An outstanding astrophysicist, giant of Indian science and superb science communicator and educator who founded India’s premier astronomy and astrophysics institute. RIP.

https://t.co/kWzwZLuJVi

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This is a neat illustration of why classrooms and teachers will remain the absolute norm for schooling at scale. Children are not consistently motivated as a cohort to learn independently. It’s madness to believe otherwise.
Education is 90% persuasion, 10% compulsion. Learning is *hard*. Thinking is hard. Intrinsic motivation is an unreliable and scarce fuel. Students need teachers.
AI will never be able to incentivise the unwilling. So, no more nonsense about whether it can replace teachers. Human behaviour trumps every heroically optimistic tech fantasy.

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

The existence of Chicago Pope implies the existence of MLA Pope and APA Pope

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Decades of abandoning knowledge for "21st Century Skills" has produced a generation of kids that can't read, write, or reason but can make a Power Point or Canva slideshow with which to boringly read off with their back semi-turned to the class.

You can't build anything lasting without memory. You can't think clearly about a world you don't know anything about.

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

If you spot someone who thinks like this, run as fast as you can in the opposite direction.

[Saucy bandit (Priyanka Joshi)🇮🇳 @jopriyu267]

I’ve become genuinely hesitant to tell people I love reading. People wrinkle their noses and say, 'Oh, I don’t read fiction,' Then they proudly announce they only read self-help books or whatever the latest finance influencer is peddling—titles like 'How to Win at Life While Icedunking Your Face Every 20 Minutes.' Honestly, if I wanted vague advice and recycled quotes from dead philosophers, I’d just scroll through LinkedIn.

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

.@IITBombay graduate launches free website to make ancient Sanskrit literature accessible to all

https://t.co/YAyM0GZybn

With the launch of https://t.co/whzPwf0H56, Antariksh Bothale, a software engineer and an IIT Bombay graduate is making ancient Sanskrit texts accessible and appealing to the new generation using modern computational tools.

[mahesh paradkar @maheshparadkar]

Then vs Now pictures. peacocks have no where to go due to construction and started to sit on society club house boundary walls. meanwhile, hard work for “world peace” continues. The society has sent notices to the college and copies to authorities threatening legal action

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

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