Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

What is actually being taught here?

So my focus is 100% on, look, if we're going to take kids, 12 years of our kids' life, we better be doing best by them.

And whatever it is we're going to teach them, maybe that's beyond my purview, sweet.

There is a way learning works.

It's a biological process.

If you follow these steps, there's a way it works best.

If we can go back to that, realign schools with that, then I think we're in a much better place to have better debates about, now, what do we teach them?

What do we actually want them to take away from this?

And it sucks, man, right?

We're having debates on form.

over function.

We're so stuck on what works and what doesn't, and we're so down the path of something that doesn't that we've got to spend so much time and money correcting that before we can get to the deeper, more important question.

Why are we here?

What are we actually trying to do?

There's things that work.

There's things that don't.

You have a memory or you don't.

You have attention or you don't.

And I think at certain levels, that's okay.

At my level, as a neuroscientist, people are fine with it.