After a year and a half of disruption, it's back to school for thousands of young people. But is the education system serving them well? In this episode of the Reimagining the World podcast,  Michael Strong, co-founder of the virtual secondary school, SocraticExperience.com argues that school is cruel,  boring and not fit for purpose.

He is an experienced school creator whose projects include Moreno Valley High School, a charter school in New Mexico ranked the 36th best public school in the U.S. by Newsweek; Winston Academy, a school for highly gifted students in Florida who successfully completed AP exams; and The Academy of Thought and Industry, the high school model for the largest U.S. Montessori network. He is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.

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