I've been reading and rereading a lot of classics lately. I'm not sure who was more foolish:

My 16-year-old self for not paying more attention... or the curriculum-makers who thought the lessons of Brave New World, Animal Farm, and Siddhartha could be passed on in a single summer reading assignment.

In a way, science and math teachers have it easy. The algebra that I learned, is the same algebra you learned, is the same algebra everyone learns. And it works out-of-the-box, too; batteries included.

But how exactly do you unpack judgement? Emotional maturity? Civic responsibility? Moreover, how can you do it all consistently and at scale?

I'm fascinated by this topic, because it seems like a great bottleneck for our species. We pass on our technology, traditions, and genes with relative ease. But wisdom, it seems, everyone and every generation must rediscover for themselves.

All of history testifies to the predictable cycles of failure cases that better "wisdom transmission" might prevent.

And yet, this is not a new idea. So why haven't we solved this yet? And what would it take to do so?