So the first one is democracy and education by John Dwey which is over 100 years old and we are now seeing through lots of great neuroscience that his observations around the teaching and learning experience and what makes for a good teaching and learning experience were right. He has some great discussions around the importance of reflection.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’” (https://nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-rebecca-winthrop.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
It's called Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies. She's a law professor at Satan Hall University. and she I I really enjoy this book because it gives a really good sort of overview particularly around kids and young people of the incentives that commercial tech has and how we need to sort of what are some strategies for resisting that and getting to a a better place.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’” (https://nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-rebecca-winthrop.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
And the last one it's called blueprint for revolution. How to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other nonviolent techniques to galvanize communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world by Sergio Papovich, who is uh the was the student sort of leader, Serbian student leader that started a movement to overthrow Sloan Malloich and now is doing quite a bit of work on um nonviolent protest against authoritarianism.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’” (https://nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-rebecca-winthrop.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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