Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2024-03-28
those who are great at learning + teaching people how to learn, know that learning at it’s core is about love, about giving a shit, about about curiosity and delight and desire
now consider all the ways in which school is the literal opposite of that
2018-07-07
To me, school today is like medicine before people learned about germ theory and hand-washing. Creative souls die every day and most people shrug the way they must’ve when women and children used to die in childbirth. Leaves from the vine…
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2024-03-28
there is a contaminant in the collective consciousness making everybody sick and we mostly sorta assume that it’s just the way of the world, like how it was the way of the world 50 years ago that everybody smoked cigarettes everywhere and you had to just accept it
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2024-03-28
there’s many different parts to this complex puzzle but for now i guess i’ll just end by reaffirming that this is what i want to spend the rest of my life working on. in the immediate future this means writing a bunch of essays
2020-04-30
if we play our cards right
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2024-03-28
and part of the reason i’ve been taking so long and struggling so hard is, as RM pointed out, we don’t even have the language for it. we are grasping in the dark. but i believe meaningful progress can be made and i intend to contribute however i can
2024-03-28
> “I think we still do not have the cultural language necessary to properly discuss the matters at hand.”
I 10000% agree and i think this is the very important work we have ahead of us
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2024-03-28
we KNOW that great learning happens with love + curiosity
we KNOW that the majority of our environments in civilization aren’t particularly awash in those things
we can REASONABLY ASSUME that creating such environments will promote great learning
2021-02-15
in 1997, statistician David Banks wrote an essay titled “The Problem Of Excess Genius” – why are some periods and places so astonishingly more productive than the rest? His primary examples are Athens, Florence and London + another set of minor examples (Paris, New York)
Kory Kilpatrick @kory_kilpatrick 2024-03-28
All this rhymes with Gabor Maté, as I’m sure you know
