This week I speak with Christian Moore-Anderson — a biology teacher-turned-cognitive-science-thinker based in Barcelona. Christian argues that the real crisis in education isn't teacher-led vs. student-led, it's that both camps quietly write the teacher out of the classroom. Drawing on enactivist ideas, Christian makes the case that meaning simply cannot be transmitted — not through a slide, not through a diagram, not through AI — because meaning needs to be enacted in each individual and gets built through live conversation between teacher and student. That reframes cognitive load theory and explicit instruction as useful but incomplete: fine for phonics, but dangerously thin once you're teaching anything that actually requires sense-making.

Get the first chapter of Christian's book , "Making Meaning" for free here:  ...