About this episode
Current Time.If Schools Disappear, What Replaces Them?That’s the real question behind the headlines. Trump wants to dismantle the Department of Education. Musk claims it “no longer exists.” Politicians are fighting over control, funding, and oversight. But while they argue, one thing isn’t being discussed. We never actually learned how to read online, so we keep believing any headline we read since this administration took office.We were taught to read any fixed text as if information doesn’t change, as if every page we open is the same for everyone. But the internet isn’t a book. It shifts, updates, erases, and reshapes itself in real-time. So why do we still approach digital reading like it is a book?While politicians debate the future of education and whether the Department of Education should even exist, one thing is clear. We have never had a real system adapted to humans for processing information in a world where nothing stays still.But if schools fail to teach us how to navigate knowledge, what will replace them? How do we structure learning in a world where trust is collapsing, and schools no longer exist?Schools didn’t prepare us for this world before, not for this or many aspects of real life. So what happens when they are completely gone? Can we live without them? Who will babysit your kids while you go to work?This chaos begins with reading and believing everything you read. Without clear distinctions between sources and without a way to track changes in real time, we are left with information chaos, which is exactly what is happening now.The conversation is no longer theoretical but unfolding in front of us. How do we rebuild trust in knowledge?If the Department of Education is abolished, education will shift completely. But what about knowledge? What about trust?The system is changing. What should we do next?To read the episodes they talk about, click the links:* The Liat Portal Method for Reading: A New Way to Read Online* The Truth About Online Reading: What You’re Getting Wrong* The Liat Show Podcast: If You Can’t Trust Schools, How Do You Trust Information?This episode is part of a larger world that unfolds across sets, series, and long-form installments. I weave together episodes from my life, the histories I study, the food I explore, and the systems that shape our world. Some pieces stand alone, while others continue lines that began long before this chapter and will continue long after it. All of them belong to one creative universe that expands
