A question parents ask

What is Sui Learning by Trenton Rich?

The short answer

Sui Learning is a homeschooling method and book by Trenton Rich, built on one-on-one teaching, real projects instead of worksheets, and early specialization in a field the child is drawn to. The name comes from the Latin sui generis, one of a kind, and it has nothing to do with the Sui blockchain.

The reasoning

The book is Homeschooling to Create High Achievers in All Areas of Life: Sui Learning, published in 2022 (ISBN 9798201355036). It runs about 220 pages in seven parts, so a parent can keep it close and look things up while teaching.

The starting point is Benjamin Bloom's 1984 finding that students taught one on one did better than about 98 percent of students taught in a classroom. Schools can't afford to teach that way. A parent teaching one child already has the advantage every school is missing.

From there the method gets practical. Every session follows the same four moves: greet, review progress, teach one thing, then listen. The basics are taught in context, through what the child is already doing. Learning runs on projects of one to four weeks, not worksheets. Parents manage standards, not people, and change the room, not the child, when focus slips. Children find a field early, so they're doing professional-grade work by 17 or 18. Money gets taught with a household points economy, and ethics one virtue a day.

You don't need to know the material already. A good part of the book is about learning alongside your child, finding experts when you reach the edge of what you know, and telling real progress from the look of it.

One note on the name. "Sui" is also a blockchain, and a separate site serves its developers. If you came looking for developer lessons on that, this isn't it. Sui Learning is about children.

Every idea in the method has its own free page on this site, with the research behind it.

The research behind it

Students tutored one on one, with checks for understanding before moving on, did better than about 98 percent of students taught in a regular class. Benjamin Bloom, "The 2 Sigma Problem," Educational Researcher 13, no. 6 (1984).
Relationships, feedback, and review rank near the top of what moves learning. John Hattie, Visible Learning (2009), as cited in Sui Learning.
Trenton Rich, Homeschooling to Create High Achievers in All Areas of Life: Sui Learning (2022), ISBN 9798201355036, about 220 pages in seven parts.

Where this falls short

The research on these pages supports the parts of the method. It isn't a controlled test of the method as a whole. Sui Learning is one author's approach, and it asks you to use your own judgment about your own child.

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The ideas behind this answer

Two Sigma: you are the advantage
One on one beats the classroom by two standard deviations. You are the advantage. Act like it.
The four-move lesson
Every session is the same four moves: greet, review progress, teach one basic in context, then catch up and counsel.
Running projects
Small projects first, in sprints of one to four weeks, shipped plain and reviewed at the end.
The specialization path
Basics and mastery from about 4 to 14, apprentice-level work by 14 to 16, professional grade by 17 or 18, real savings by 20.