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5 Tools to Learn How to Learn

It’s been said that teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind. But how to teach best, and what lessons are the most valuable? Winston Churchill said “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

September 15, 2020
Why We Must Learn the Other Montessori Method

Maria Montessori saw clarity through the noise. The noise — decades of education to teach her about how to preserve the order of so many things, a level of education that would clutter most brains and leave people with little room for originality and creativity.

August 31, 2020
Four-and-a-Half Rules You Must Break: A Message to 2020 Grads

Class of 2020, I’m here to tell you that you need to break some rules. But first I’d like to tell you about five monkeys, a group of scientists, an experiment. And some bananas.

June 15, 2020
Appreciation: The Common Thread of Commencement

One of the greatest graduation speeches of all time (in my humble opinion) was delivered by the late author David Foster Wallace to the Kenyon College class of 2005.

June 3, 2020
What I’ve learned about scaling a Platform company

This month, Uptake signed the 20th partner in our Platform ecosystem. These collaborators range from companies that maintain some of our country’s largest manufacturing plants to providers of edge devices for our leading utilities.

December 5, 2019
An Even Better Education: Learn How to Learn, Not Just What to Learn

Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind. But what lessons are most valuable? Most of our years in classrooms consist of listening, memorizing, regurgitating — and then repeating that cycle. So I ask — were you taught how to learn?

November 20, 2018
Building a Bucket List of Consequence: My Conversation with Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

A few months ago I sat down with Arne Duncan for a conversation on The Upside. He’s well-known as the former Secretary of Education under President Obama, and as a pragmatic leader who spent his career pushing for innovation and positive change for students – a sometimes daunting task.

March 27, 2018
The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Risk: Student Debt (Flipping the University: Part 2)

In 2012, a team of ex-Google employees decided to launch their own company: a venture capital firm of sorts with a twist called Upstart. While traditional venture capital structures give funding to companies, Upstart’s financial backers monetarily support individuals. All they ask for in return is a share of future income.

February 5, 2017

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