As a soon to be father for the first time I have every intention to similarly teach my future child, I certainly won’t count on the culture—much less the educational system—to do it for me, even here in Cambridge UK.
As a theatre practitioner I do have some hope and ambition that rationalist principles might begin to find their way into the arts by the time my child is old enough to notice. The arts may not be the most obvious vector for the rationalist meme, but they may well prove surprisingly effective over time.
Hopefully Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality will spawn a new generation of kids books that are fun and useful.
If you figure out some good ways to teach kids, Add them to the site—I think it’d be great to build up a repository of that kind of thing.. after all, I’m sure lots of us will have kids some day and will want to use and build on this knowledge.
As a soon to be father for the first time I have every intention to similarly teach my future child, I certainly won’t count on the culture—much less the educational system—to do it for me, even here in Cambridge UK. As a theatre practitioner I do have some hope and ambition that rationalist principles might begin to find their way into the arts by the time my child is old enough to notice. The arts may not be the most obvious vector for the rationalist meme, but they may well prove surprisingly effective over time. Hopefully Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality will spawn a new generation of kids books that are fun and useful.
If you figure out some good ways to teach kids, Add them to the site—I think it’d be great to build up a repository of that kind of thing.. after all, I’m sure lots of us will have kids some day and will want to use and build on this knowledge.