Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you

with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy,

by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

It's about learning, not memorization.

It's time for us to review your multiplication tables you tell them. Let's look

over your vocab flashcards one more time. Or maybe you're one of those parents that makes your kids

recite poems or plays that signs them up for performances. Maybe you're drilling them for a spelling bee right now.

It's all making them smarter you tell yourself, or is it? Or is it just

teaching them how to act smart? To know by heart is not to know, the Great Montaigne reminds us.

Remember, we're not trying to raise a robot. We want a kid who can think, who cares what they can

recite, especially today when everything is a

Google search away, when machine learning and actual robots supplement what humans used to have to have

tucked away in the recesses of their brains. Our job is to raise kids who know how to figure stuff out.

We want them to know what something means as much as we want

them to know what it is. We want them to love learning, not be really good at performing. So make

sure your priorities are aligned. Make sure the activities you design actually get you closer to that

goal. Make sure you're focused on the right stuff.

Teach them to know, how to know.

That's what counts.

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