The Way We Learn
From the Three Rs to the AI tutor: how the factory-model classroom failed every mind that didn't fit, what the science of learning actually says, and why — for the first time — we can meet every learner where they are. An 8-part ReThink History series. The problem was never the child. We can do better. Narrated by AI voices from sourced, human-reviewed research.
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Episodes
8. The AI Tutor
Bloom's problem was cost; AI just made a personal tutor almost free.
7. The Two-Sigma Problem
In 1984 Bloom showed tutoring beats the classroom by two standard deviations — but no one could afford it.
6. Meet Them Where They Are
Children once called 'uneducable' won a legal right to learn.
5. The Science of Remembering
Re-reading your notes is one of the worst ways to learn.
4. The Learning-Styles Myth
Almost everyone believes in learning styles; almost no evidence supports matching to them.
3. The Reading Wars
A 70-year fight over how to teach reading, and the dyslexic kids caught in it.
2. Measuring Minds
A French doctor built a test to help struggling children; America turned it into a sorting machine.
1. The Factory of the Three Rs
For a child born in 1950, school meant rows, rote, and the Three Rs.