I think that you can have a school for rationality, but the people who stick around should be those who achieve new and difficult accomplishments, and the default is that you do not advance or continue without accomplishing something difficult and great.
I suspect it is easier to teach rationality than to do rationality because it is easier to conceive of an ideal than it is to live it. A great athlete works many hours a day with focus and interest. A coach merely watches and pokes them when they’re going off-course, or says some motivating words.
I would start a school by forming a set of teachers, but we would be the certifiers, not the certified. Coaches. Rationality coaches who help you in your journey, not rationality teachers who you aspire to be.
I think that you can have a school for rationality, but the people who stick around should be those who achieve new and difficult accomplishments, and the default is that you do not advance or continue without accomplishing something difficult and great.
I suspect it is easier to teach rationality than to do rationality because it is easier to conceive of an ideal than it is to live it. A great athlete works many hours a day with focus and interest. A coach merely watches and pokes them when they’re going off-course, or says some motivating words.
I would start a school by forming a set of teachers, but we would be the certifiers, not the certified. Coaches. Rationality coaches who help you in your journey, not rationality teachers who you aspire to be.