Teaching

“When you educate a person, you save a family.”

My teaching rests on three pillars. The first is an ethics of care: learning happens fastest when students trust that their teacher is invested in them, so I learn every student’s name by the second day of class — even in sections of nearly eighty — and make sure each one feels seen and heard. The second is rigor without fear: everybody is a genius in their own way, and my classroom is a place where any question is safe to ask, but memorization is never mistaken for understanding. The third is motivation through real puzzles: every lecture opens with a question from the world outside — Is the economy actually growing? Why are some countries rich and others poor? — because students who care about the answer will do the hard work of learning the tools. In an age when content is everywhere and generative AI can summarize any textbook, the job of a teacher is to build people who can keep teaching themselves.