Interesting portrait of someone who takes a correlation in a small sample size of 1 and extrapolates those SSS conclusions to the entire population.

“Cadre means that kids have very firm limits about certain things—that’s the frame—and that the parents strictly enforce these. But inside the cadre, French parents entrust their kids with quite a lot of freedom and autonomy.” I don’t think that’s unique to France.

“But do we really need 10,000 professors in 10,000 classrooms lecturing on the same subject? Why not let students watch the best explainer in the world explain calculus or physics – online, on their own time – and use local professors to work in smaller groups with students?”