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Cramming 12 years of learning into 6 mad, wonderful weeks: My experience in the Learning in Depth summer cohort.

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This summer I joined a Learning in Depth program run by Brandon Hendrickson of  The Lost Tools of Learning  blog and  Science is Weird  and Alessandro Gelmi, an Egan-education scholar and PhD candidate at the University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Learning in Depth (LiD) is the brainchild of Kieran Egan, a program in which students are randomly assigned a topic in early primary school. Students then study and develop a portfolio on this topic for up to the next 12 years. It was almost a year exactly after I read an Astral Codex Ten  book review  of Kieran Egan’s  The Educated Mind  and began down the rabbit hole that led me to this summer cohort. I had read a few of Egan’s books and many of Brandon’s blog posts and tried out some techniques,  but the LiD summer cohort would be my first chance to really engage with Imaginative Education firsthand. To make matters a little more complicated, I would be doing the cohort while traveling with from Hong Kong to my hometown in Ohio and then als