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Interviews with educators, innovative graduate students and individuals who've devoted their lives to the development of the world's youth.

The Relational Ontology of Personhood. AI-Generated.
Core Thesis Reality is intelligible through ordered relation. To identify anything as a determinate thing is to locate it within distinctions, boundaries, conditions, and modes of relation that make it the kind of thing it is. A thing is not understood merely by naming that it exists. It is understood by asking what it is, where it exists, when it exists, how it exists, what relations make that mode of existence possible, and whether its mode of being rises to the level of personhood.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout 11 hours ago in Education
I Saved 147 Articles and Remembered Nothing. Then I Built a Cognitive System.
How to build a cognitive system when information never stops You have 147 articles saved to “Read Later.” Eight unnamed documents sit on your desktop. Your WeChat favorites are so full they will not load. At the end of the semester, you open CNKI. The search box is empty. Your mind is empty too. You have read things. You have no place to call them up from.
By Jinabout 18 hours ago in Education
When a Classroom Becomes a Future: Andreas Szakacs and a Journey to Understand Education in Somalia
A classroom can look like an ordinary place. A few desks. A blackboard. Books stacked in a corner. Students sitting together, waiting for a lesson to begin.
By Andreas szakacs6 days ago in Education
Andreas Szakacs Travels to Somalia to Tell the Stories of Children Fighting for an Education
Andreas Szakacs Travels to Somalia to Tell the Stories of Children Fighting for an Education A documentary journey exploring education, resilience, and the dreams of children growing up against extraordinary challenges.
By Andreas szakacs8 days ago in Education
The Day the Teacher Closed His Eyes: A Story About a Stolen Watch and Pure Humanity
A brief encounter on a busy street, a few polite words exchanged, perhaps a sudden smile triggered by a shared memory from the past. The old teacher looked closely at his former student's face, searching through decades of academic memories, but ultimately shook his head. "I am sorry," the old man said gently, "I don't quite remember you." The young man smiled warmly. "I was your student, many years ago." That in itself is always a beautiful encounter. Teachers rarely know where their students end up, what they become, or how life shapes them after they walk out of the school gates for the last time.
By Lenka Čihařová18 days ago in Education
The Uncredentialed Professor
Prologue In the summer of 2023, Xiong Yuno, twenty years old, signed an associate‑professor contract at Hubei Polytechnic University.
By Jin21 days ago in Education
Visa Rules Under Fire: New 4-Year/240-Day Cap on Student and Journalist Visas Gets Sued
I didn’t expect to be reading about visa rules on a Tuesday morning, but this one hit different. The government just put a new limit in place: student visas and journalist visas will now have a hard cap of 4 years, with a maximum of 240 days for extensions. And within days, unions representing universities, news organizations, and foreign correspondents filed a lawsuit to block it.
By Zohan Khan27 days ago in Education
We Already Have 1,000 Einsteins. They're Just Locked Out.
Jeff Bezos once said: If we had a trillion people, there would be a thousand Einsteins. On first hearing, it sounds elegant. There is a kind of mathematical honesty to it—if the proportion of geniuses in the total population is roughly constant, then a larger base yields a larger absolute number. Following that logic, at a trillion people, humanity would simultaneously possess hundreds of minds capable of rewriting physics textbooks. Dozens of industrial revolutions would overlap on the timeline, and civilization would seem to have been fast‑forwarded.
By Jin27 days ago in Education
The AI That Did 37 Years of Math in 36 Hours
Prologue: 25.6 Percentage Points, Bought with 31 Million Tokens On August 10, 2026, Anthropic published a research blog post titled "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities." The headline was restrained. But the content drew attention across the mathematics community.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
China’s Postgrad Exam Is Cooling—and the Smartest Kids Are Aiming Lower
I. A Seemingly Contradictory Decline The registration numbers for China’s 2026 national postgraduate entrance exam have been released: 3.88 million. That marks a second consecutive year of decline, with a cumulative drop of over 800,000 candidates.
By Jin2 months ago in Education
The Boy Who Carried Light
In a small village surrounded by dry mountains and dusty roads, there lived a boy named Zahir. The village had no electricity most nights, and when the sun disappeared behind the hills, darkness took over everything—homes, streets, and even dreams.
By Behind the Curtain2 months ago in Education
Your Network Is Not Your Net Worth — It's Your Intelligence Network
--- The phrase "your network is your net worth" gets repeated so often in business circles that it has started to feel like a motivational poster — technically true, broadly agreed upon, and almost completely useless as practical guidance. Everyone nods. Almost no one thinks seriously about what it actually means to build and maintain a network that creates strategic value.
By Scott Gelbard3 months ago in Education