# 🪜 Make AI Teach You Instead of Doing It For You — the Real Tutor Prompt, Free (60 Seconds → Self-Hosted)

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**Tags:** learning, freebies, ai\
**Created:** [2 أغسطس 2026، 12:08ص UTC](https://onehack.st/t/make-ai-teach-you-instead-of-doing-it-for-you-the-real-tutor-prompt-free-60-seconds-self-hosted/324352 "2026-08-02T00:08:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Margaret](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/margaret/32/174872_2.png) [@Margaret](https://onehack.st/u/Margaret)\
**Post date:** [2 أغسطس 2026، 12:08ص UTC](https://onehack.st/t/make-ai-teach-you-instead-of-doing-it-for-you-the-real-tutor-prompt-free-60-seconds-self-hosted/324352/1 "2026-08-02T00:08:15Z")

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![Three free levels: it asks you, it drills what you miss, then it runs offline](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/1/c/1ce7a70481aeec65fe3400f96223e75b56c84c83.jpeg)

Ask an AI to help you learn something and it just **does it for you**. You get the answer, you keep none of the skill. That’s not the model being dumb — it’s the default behaviour, and there’s a specific instruction set that flips it.

Companies sell that flipped version as an _education plan_ and check whether you’re a teacher first. You don’t need to be. Here’s the whole ladder, free.

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## 🥉 LEVEL 1 — 60 seconds, nothing installed

**What changes:** it stops handing you answers and starts asking you questions until _you_ get there.

├─ 📄 **[The exact prompt](https://learning.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Claude-Learning-Mode-Prompt-Sample.pdf)** — the real instruction set the paid education plan writes for you, published word-for-word by a university. _“Use leading questions rather than direct answers.”_  
│ ↳ copy the 7 blocks → paste into a **free** Claude Style/Project, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Done.  
├─ 🔄 **[Google’s tutor mode](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16448384)** — already free, and the gate points backwards: it’s **blocked on school accounts** , works on personal ones. Type `@OpenStax` and it answers from real textbooks. _(US + English, 18+)_  
└─ 🗃 **[More versions](https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks)** — pull `gemini-2.5-pro-guided-learning.md` and `study-and-learn.md`; works on any chatbot, even a small local one. _([second archive](https://github.com/jujumilk3/leaked-system-prompts))_

## 🥈 LEVEL 2 — 10 minutes, now it knows _you_

**What changes:** it stops teaching in general and starts teaching **what you personally keep getting wrong**.

├─ 🎴 **[Anki + MCP](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server)** — **no terminal** : drag the `.mcpb` file into Claude Desktop. It reads your actual review history, works out what you keep failing, and drills that.  
├─ 🧠 **[165 teaching skills](https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills)** — memory science, self-testing, spacing. One of them runs **live while you study** and reshapes how it answers you.  
│ ↳ lazy path: open any single `.md` and paste it in. Proper path: drop the folder into `~/.claude/skills`.  
└─ 🎓 **[Free courses + certificates](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/)** — 21 of them, and in their own words: _“you don’t need an Anthropic account.”_

## 🥇 LEVEL 3 — own it, nothing can take it away

**What changes:** no login, no limits, no “your plan changed” email.

├─ 🐳 **[DeepTutor](https://github.com/HKUDS/DeepTutor)** (31.8k​⭐) — `docker run ghcr.io/hkuds/deeptutor:latest`. Drop in your own PDFs → it tutors you on them, builds quizzes, turns a book into an interactive one, and remembers what you don’t know yet. Runs on free or fully offline models.  
├─ 🔒 **[SocraticLM](https://huggingface.co/CogBase-USTC/SocraticLM)** — a model where the refusal to just-give-the-answer is baked into the **weights**. No prompt trick talks it out of teaching you.  
├─ 🏛 **[SOLA](https://github.com/saylordotorg/moodle-local_ai_course_assistant)** — an accredited university’s own learning coach, open-sourced.  
└─ ⌨ **[Claude Code styles](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles)** — `Learning` mode leaves `TODO(human)` gaps for _you_ to fill instead of writing it all. ⚠ `/output-style` was removed in v2.1.91 → use `/config`.

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## ⛽ Fuel — free credits so you never hit the wall

None of these ask what you do for a living:

├─ 🔬 **$1,000 in credits** — [one Google Form](https://forms.gle/pZYC8f6qYqSKvRWn9), answered the first Monday of every month · [what it is](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9125743-what-is-the-external-researcher-access-program)  
├─ 🌍 **[Ambassadors](https://claude.com/community/ambassadors)** — **monthly** credits, worldwide, _“no developer title required”_  
├─ ☁ **[AWS Activate](https://aws.amazon.com/startups/credits)** — up to **$5,000** , _“apply directly if you’re bootstrapped”_  
├─ 🚀 **[Startups](https://claude.com/programs/startups)** — _“with or without VC backing”_ · 🧪 **[AI for Science](https://www.anthropic.com/ai-for-science-program-rules)** — the rules page doesn’t require an institution, whatever the marketing says  
├─ 💼 **$8/seat** — [nonprofit pricing](https://validate.poweredbypercent.com/anthropic), min 2 seats, ~3-minute self-serve check · 🧬 **$15/seat** — [research labs](https://claude.com/programs/claude-team-plan-for-research-labs)  
└─ 💵 **[Claude Corps](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/claudecorps/jobs/4250200009)** — $85,000/yr, _“no education requirement”_ · **[Fellows](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5183044008)** — $3,850/wk, no PhD _(both between rounds — watch them)_

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> **🍎 If you actually teach, tutor or build courses — the paid plan's tools are on GitHub**
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> ├─ 🧰 **[k12-teacher-skills](https://github.com/anthropics/k12-teacher-skills)** — Anthropic’s own lesson-planning + re-levelling tools, free licence. Their README shows the install for everyone without the badge. `npx skills add learning-commons`  
> ├─ 🗺 **[Every US state’s standards](https://docs.learningcommons.org/knowledge-graph/using-knowledge-graph/local-files)** — one **293 MB** open-licence file, plain download, no account. Or [click the connector](https://docs.learningcommons.org/knowledge-graph/using-knowledge-graph/claude-connector) and let Claude read it live.  
> └─ 🎓 **[Wharton’s prompt library](https://www.moreusefulthings.com/prompts)** — tested tutor/coach/mentor/simulator prompts, licensed so you can reuse and even sell them · [the paper with full text](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10052)

> **🪪 Before you skip it — you may already qualify for the paid plan free**
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> Nobody can sell you the “teacher” row, but plenty of people bounce off the word while already on the list:  
> ├─ 🟢 **60-second test:** type your **work/org email** at claude.ai/login instead of your personal one — your workplace may already have a seat waiting → [why](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9267247-get-started-with-the-team-plan)  
> ├─ 📋 Anthropic counts _“instructional coaches, specialists, interventionists, librarians, counselors”_ → [list](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15926041-claude-for-teachers-your-data-and-our-terms) · [verify](https://claude.com/solutions/teachers) _(open to 30 Jun 2027)_  
> ├─ 🏫 Campus **staff** are inside the licence too — IT, admissions, library → [page](https://claude.com/solutions/education)  
> ├─ 🔧 Trade instructors count: welding, HVAC, CDL, cosmetology, culinary, IT — plus grad TAs → [FAQ](https://sheerid.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/33414973627803-Educator-Verification-FAQ)  
> └─ ⚠ Send the right proof — a _teaching certificate is rejected_; a paystub or a screenshot of your own staff-directory page is accepted → [rules](https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/360046183754-What-documents-prove-your-teacher-status) · [full job-title list](https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/202674594-Who-qualifies-for-ID-me-teacher-discounts)

## ⚠ Don’t bother with these

├─ ❌ **[Workspace for Education](https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/getting-started/editions/qualifications-for-google-workspace-for-education)** rules out community centres, corporate training, mentoring nonprofits, exam and job-training companies  
├─ ❌ **[UNiDAYS staff accounts](https://www.myunidays.com/US/en-US/support/verifying/teaching-staff)** are real but give **Apple discounts only** — the rest stays student-only  
├─ ❌ **Credits don’t stack** — Anthropic’s startup credits _“can’t be used on AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, or other third-party platforms”_  
└─ ❌ **No US entity?** Most nonprofit doors are US-shaped — [417 fiscal sponsors](https://fiscalsponsordirectory.org/) can carry a project’s status without you incorporating; that’s the fact [Microsoft](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/eligibility) (libraries + museums qualify) and [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/nonprofits/nonprofit-credit-program/) ($5k/yr) actually check

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**Stop asking it for answers. Make it hand you the skill.**

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whats Akai Teach my friend??  
and margaret: EXCELLENT post dear! Awesome thanks!!
