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Every Child Their Own Aristotle: Chapter 5 Meets the Kitchen Table
Chapter 5 of Unscarcity argues that the 1843 Prussian factory model of school is finally obsolete — that for the first time in history, every child on Earth can have a personal tutor, the way Aristotle tutored Alexander. This week, the book's author Patrick Deglon watched that claim come true at his own kitchen table. His twelve-year-old, who had been drifting through sixth-grade math, came to him unprompted after a long Sunday hike and asked to do more. The catalyst was a tutor that finally saw him — one built on Claude Opus 4.7, the first model good enough to make on-demand personalized…
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