Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Founded @MentavaInc to teach reading in preschool and calculus in middle school. Help me bring back excellence in education. Father of 4.
The goal of modern education policy is not “helping every kid achieve their potential”, but rather “closing the gap” between high achievers and low achievers. Unfortunately, this means that many high-achieving students are intentionally slowed down, and held back to allow their…
Pro-tip: Don't email people asking permission to email them. Just shoot your shot and include your best pitch in your first message.
Don't fall into the trap of trying to motivate kids like they're little adults. Preschoolers don't understand the abstraction of "if I memorize these letters today, I'll be able to read in 6 months". Preschoolers barely understand the cause-and-effect of "if I jump off the…
It’s a good point. People get burnt out on learning things when they don’t understand what the purpose is or why it should matter to them.
Saving this for my next "don't teach kids to read, teach them to love reading" argument
I agree with this, but not every child has access to expert instruction from a skilled parent/teacher. High-quality educational software closes that opportunity gap.
Hellllll yeah! Human interaction is the best way for kids to learn at the age imo
“How dare you build a cheap and effective solution rather than engage in a lifetime of futile activism in a ineffective effort to reform an unresponsive and uninterested government monopoly”
Niels is profiting off of concerned parents and a broken education system. Rather than help fix it, he promotes its brokenness, attempting to persuade parents that their child, even at an extreme young age, needs to be the best because school will fail them.