Chrisman@chrisman• over 1 year ago

Elon nails exactly what's wrong with education here and what needs to change. You may not know he actually started a remarkable school at SpaceX for his kids based on his principles... The school was called Ad Astra, Latin for “to the stars”. Elon hired @josh_dahn to build and run the school. When Elon’s kids graduated, Josh and I cofounded @synthesischool together. Our goal is to take the best parts of the SpaceX school and make them accessible to everyone. Elon famously follows a “first principles” approach. The primary principle of the school: A good education should produce people who can SOLVE PROBLEMS — real, complex problems with a team. Like how to colonize Mars. Not fake school worksheet problems. This principle was embodied in a class at the school called “Synthesis”. In the class, kids worked in teams to solve problems via complex games and simulations. The skills they build in Synthesis — working with a team, making tradeoffs, risk assessment and critical thinking — are the foundational skills they’ll need to solve problems in any domain. 1/2