What If You Were Never Bad at Learning? | Asher Kure, Part 1

Change Narratives · Oct 2, 2026 · 26m

This season of Change Narratives looks at the social units that shape people: families, communities, institutions, environments and experiences.

Education is one of the biggest.

For many of us, school is where we first start deciding whether we are smart, slow, academic, creative or simply “not good at learning.”

But what happens when those conclusions are wrong?

In Part 1 of our conversation with researcher, educator and author Asher Kure, we explore the experiences that made him question some of our most familiar assumptions about intelligence and learning.

Asher tells the story of a…