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Posted by Curiositry 8 hours ago

What shall I teach my son?(stevekrouse.com)
248 points | 312 commentspage 6
sailfast 7 hours ago|
For me - it’s a love of reading, music, and intellectual curiosity. From there most everything else follows.
theultdev 1 hour ago||
Strategy shifted, will focus less on code other than basics, but I'm still going to teach my daughter how to reason and problem solve.

Learning what you want to create and how it should generally be done is a learned skill, and it helps it other parts of life.

Nothing to do with code, and it's a superpower in the age of ai. Someone has to talk to the AI for money.

sbodnar 5 hours ago||
How to establish safe and effective social and work boundaries, financial literacy, time management, and "Eat the Frog" principle for tasks.
blauditore 6 hours ago||
Tangentially related, but thinking about what to teach your kid years into the future before it's even born has a bit of an unhealthy touch to it. Take it step by step and especially don't pressure your kid with high expectations.
31337Logic 1 hour ago||
Philosophy.
romerocesar 2 hours ago||
teach him to be resilient, and emphasize learning how to learn.
dofm 4 hours ago||
I am a reader; I'm not interested in fiction particularly but I read absolutely extensively, constantly and on more or less any topic, so the internet always appealed to me.

My siblings, also non-fiction readers, both learned to read before they went to school.

I point-blank refused: I was confident I could learn to read, and with the now-long-lost confidence of a summer child, at the age of less than four, I said "no, that is what school is for".

When I got there, I was reading well above my level within the first couple of weeks.

I assume that as well as my parents showing what reading was, I had seen my brother reading, and he had read to me and had shown me what learning to read looked like.

The point of this disjointed anecdote is: be engaged, be inquisitive, show yourself learning and exploring; if you are shown a puzzle, approach it as if you don't know it. Furrow your brow comically, make mock mistakes, show your working. Enlist others to play these learning game.

You don't have to worry about teaching your son anything except that learning is great, and if possible that all sorts of adults have all sorts of things they can teach.

Once your kid is at school, then you can fill in the gaps; then you can be the extra teacher who engages with the subject matter (which as an adult you will have long forgotten and really can approach with fresh eyes).

It's your job to help make a learner, not to be a teacher.

throw7 7 hours ago||
"as a student of McLuhan, Postman would be remiss if he didn’t invite students to make the tools and narratives that thereafter make us"

That's less Mcluhan and more Foucault.

Kuyawa 3 hours ago|
Tell him he should learn how to use his second brain, it has a thousand times more capacity than his first brain

Intelligence will never be scarce. Super Intelligence I meant

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