Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

Or do we all live in very different worlds?

And we now are very much falling on this side, where what you see, what you taste, what you hear is very different than what somebody else will see, taste, hear in the exact same context.

So we don't take the world in clean.

We're constantly just creating it up here.

So give me a million kids as kindergartners.

They're all gonna come in with completely different stories.

Isn't the job of a public education at some level to unify all of them under a single comprehensive narrative so that we can all live in the same basic world together?

We don't gotta agree on everything, but at least there is one narrative so we're all tasting the same stuff.

We're all smelling the same things, at least in this context.

And that's where I think you're gonna see in the U.S.

especially, school is going to...

become smaller and smaller and smaller.

I think it went from local communities were controlling the school to then districts, to states, a little bit of federal touched in.

And I think you're going to see it swing way back where we're going to say, look, if we can't do this at a national level, we can't do it at a state level.

We'll just do it at a local level and we will drive our own curricula in this community here.

It has become something I tell people, make a list.

The aqueducts, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the pyramids of Giza, going to the moon, the atom bomb, these are all things we did before digital, modern digital technology.

What human beings can achieve by ourselves when we think and work is ridiculous.

Yet I think you're right, we've crossed some sort of threshold where we think,

Without tech, we are nothing.