Why do we learn to write, paint, play music, code? Why do we bother trying to understand difficult ideas and turn that understanding into new work?Our culture of virality and fame suggests that we make work to make it big....

All of us in education, whether teachers or students, navigate a paradox. To build deep knowledge of any particular kind, we have to drill into the limited areas of study we call disciplines. But our experience of the world isn't ...

Anytime we try to learn to learn something--whether in a classroom or out in the world--we have to decide whether we trust whoever is teaching us. Trust is, however, hard to find here in 2024, a mere two weeks before an election that pits two s...

Where does school begin? In this episode, we hear about the first instances of formal schooling in recorded human history. Sumerologists Jana Matuszak, of the University of Chicago, and Sophus Helle, at Freie Universität Berlin, take us into a ...

Season 1 of Seed Catalog: A Podcast about Teaching, Learning, and Hope, will launch this Fall. Listen for an introduction the amazing ideas and stories we'll hear this season, from the earliest schools in recorded history to the red hot clown e...