How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt

We don't do the basics. We need to nail the basics, just like in sports. My famous example I always use is if you lose the ball twenty percent of the time going down the court, the coach is not. saying, let's work on the dunks and the alley oops or the even the layups. They're like ball handling. We're gonna get ball handing. Twenty percent isn't acceptable. 15% isn't acceptable. You can't be eighty-five, eighty percent accurate. In America we're like you get in a B, man, move on. We're moving on to dunks. You just finished

Fourth grade at eighty percent, let's get you into that fifth grade stuff. And the answer is no. No, because then all those problems compound. Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast. We discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

My guest today is Joe Lemont. The principle of Alpha School, which is a novel approach to education that strives to ensure that every child reaches the frontier of their knowledge and skill potential. Kids in alpha school spend just two hours a day, too. hours a day learning what they need to in order to ensure no gaps knowledge. Then they spend the rest of their day learning to and actually starting their own businesses, learning financial skills as well as communication and interpersonal skills. The goal of Alpha School is to tailor learning to the unique needs of the child. But unlike so many other non-traditional forms of learning in schools,

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