EPISODE 393
Your Kid’s Dropping IQ Is Not An Accident — Here’s the Proof With Dr. Jared Horvath
Does it seem to you as if today’s kids are not as smart and lacking in common sense than previous generations? You’re not imagining things…
The current focus on education — treating the human brain like a computer and using artificial intelligence (AI) to feed it knowledge — may be great for sitting in front of a screen playing video games, but not so much on real learning and creativity, the one true superpower every human being has.
Educator Dr. Jared Horvath explains why today’s kids are cognitively declining and describes what we can do to reverse that downward trend this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Jared at his LME Global website and on social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram.
SHOW NOTES
8:05 Pursuing the science of learning.
13:20 “The brain is not a computer, and you are not your brain.”
24:49 Our kids are losing their conceptual natures, and are cognitively declining.
27:56 Humanity’s greatest superpower.
32:32 The three stages of creativity.
35:30 Why are kids living East Asian countries smarter and more creative than those in America?
50:01 Why teachers don’t have a say in the education process.
58:20 Focusing on proximal goals versus distal goals.
1:09:29 Do you really understand the difference between opinions and knowledge?
1:16:01 AI falsely assumes human thought is best represented in speech.
1:21:00 The reification of education.
1:28:09 When Paul was a child, he dreamed of becoming a bank robber.
1:35:42 The breadth of your knowledge is only as good as the depth of it, which may explain why education is broken.
1:42:32 The importance of mastery.
1:53:07 Is it really cheaper for schools to divest from digital tech for physical education and the arts?
2:02:28 Why it is NOT important for kids to be taught how to use AI.
2:16:01 Jared’s real problem with AI, aside from the fact that it does nothing: Its intellectual heritage is hidden.
2:21:08 The tech outsourcing of basic parenting.
2:38:25 The digital outsourcing of executive function skills and how it affects our kids.
2:49:38 Paul’s explores AI with Claude Anthropic.
2:54:39 Jared’s recommendations about what parents can do today to improve how their children learn and live.
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning — And How To Help Them Thrive Again by Dr. Jared Horvath
The Tangram
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
The work of Iain McGilchrist, Howard Gardner, Neil Postman, William Farish, Arnold Mindell and Andrew Cantarutti
Blue Angels: Around the World at the Speed of Sound
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Paul’s podcast conversations with Rachel Miles and Federico Faggin
Paul’s solocast on The Danger of Living in Two Realities
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth and Delight by Ken Wilbur
Streams of Wisdom by Dustin DiPerna and Ken Wilbur
The Second Book of the Tao by Stephen Mitchell
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