Michael Strong
@flowidealism • 29,886 subscribers
Founder @Socraticexp. 35 years turning school from your family's biggest stress into its greatest relief. K-12, Socratic seminars, 1:1 mentorship, worldwide.
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If your child becomes a voracious reader, 80% of the educational work is already done. I read 200-page books every night at age 10. Today I read research articles for fun. Most knowledge people think requires formal schooling can be gained through reading, audiobooks, or quality YouTube content, if you're judicious about what you consume.
Michael Strong180,283 views • 6 months ago
Braden, one of our students at Socratic Experience, went from selling hoodies and producing music to leading media and advertising deals at 18, generating over 5 billion views on social media while working with some of the world’s most well-known social media content creators. Watch how his communication and confidence transformed when education supported his ambitions instead of suppressing them.
Michael Strong46,658 views • 4 months ago
No Strollers has been a friend for almost two decades. Knowing about my work as a Socratic educator, when his daughter was born, he asked me to advise him on her education. When she was three, he and I began recording our conversations about her education and posting them here. When she was four, I began having conversations directly with her and posting them. I have been posting these conversations. almost weekly for nine years now. A significant benefit of intellectual dialogue from a young age is extending focus, in particular intellectual focus. Is Alana able to complete Harvard CS50 at 13 because of anything I've done? Maybe not. Certainly her father and mother have modeled there interactions at home on my Socratic approach, and Alana has attended Socratic Experience . In addition, however, at a young age she also read Jocko Willink 's Way of the Warrior Kid and began her jui-jitsu training at a dojo associated with him. Her martial arts discipline is extraordinary (she has won national championships) and that no doubt contributes to her discipline and ability to push through difficult academic materials. She has also been a voracious reader since young (not an accident that her CS50 final project is designed to track book reading). In any case, Alana started CS50 almost two years ago. It was a challenge she persisted with. Last spring we lost our CS teacher, so she continued to work on it on her own a bit, but it was tough. This fall, 2025, we got a superb CS teacher, and she started over again from the beginning (she had gotten about 2/3rds through but had not understood it well). With him, they started over from the beginning and she rapidly redid all of the assignments and projects, now understanding much better. As she mentions, she learned how to take notes on the Harvard lectures. And now, she has submitted her final project to Harvard, has received passing grades on all of her assignments, and will receive her official certificate of completion. I am confident that had she had less attentive and committed parents, and attended regular public school, there is no way that she would have completed Harvard CS50 at 13. She might have been a straight A student, doing well in banal classes, but at a completely different level intellectually. Some combination of her parents' commitment, Jocko Willink and jui-jitsu, and my influence has gotten her here.
Michael Strong29,216 views • 3 months ago
We’re moving from a credential-based world to one where practical skill matters much more. One of our graduates at The Socratic Experience already earns $500,000 a year from digital work that has accumulated billions of views. MrBeast couldn't stand school, yet he has about 621 million social media subscribers, while the New York Times has around 12 million. It’s impressive to see how much young people accomplish when high agency replaces compliance.
Michael Strong13,552 views • 6 months ago
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