Posts

What Are Schools For?

Image
What Are Schools For? - Jeff Neu I ask this almost every day now. Not rhetorically. Genuinely. We've outsourced information to Google. We've professionalized childcare into standardized curricula. We've reduced learning to testable outcomes. And somewhere in that process, we lost the thing schools were actually for . But to understand what's lost, you have to go back to what they were built for in the first place. Formation The story starts in 1642 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1] The Puritans who settled Boston believed that children's salvation, eternal and temporal, depended on their ability to read. Not just to decode words, but to understand Scripture, to know the law, to think for themselves within the framework of their faith community. [2] So Massachusetts passed the first compulsory education law in ...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Factory Model is Obsolete. Your School Should Be Too!

Image
The Factory Model is Obsolete | Jeff Neu The Factory Model is Obsolete. Your School Should Be Too. by jeff neu A reflection on why schools are stuck in outdated models while the industries they're supposed to prepare students for have transformed entirely. The Opening We've automated manufacturing. We've digitized finance. We've rebuilt entire industries around AI and efficiency. But we're still teaching like it's 1950. The factory model of education. One teacher, thirty students, one curriculum, one textbook, one pace. It was designed for a different time. It made sense when information was scarce and standardization felt like progress. But we're not in that world anymore. We haven't been for decades. Yet schools keep operating like we are. Meanwhile, the...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Book of Hypocrites

Image
The Book of Hypocrites The Book of Hypocrites by the biggest hypocrite of all Note: This post is from a blog I wrote during my undergraduate years at a Christian university. I'm reposting it as the inaugural entry for this space because it represents something core to how I think: the practice of asking hard questions, sitting in discomfort, and refusing easy answers. This post uses satire to examine hypocrisy in contemporary American evangelical Christianity. The "instructions" are intentionally inverted to expose the gap between stated values and actual practice. CHAPTER 1: The Magnificent Slave's Message This letter is from the Magnificent Slave of Christ Jesus. I am writing about all of the honorable things that I do, which you too should do. My hope is that you may also become a magnificent slave of Christ Jesus too, but lesser magnificent than me of course. Greetings,...
Post a Comment
Read more