
Inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk is no fan of the traditional schooling model. Musk is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and chairman of SolarCity. He is also the founder of SpaceX and a co-founder of PayPal.
In one 2014 interview Musk said that, “I think a lot of things that people learn probably there’s no point in learning them because that they never use them in the future because kids just in school kinda puzzled as to why they’re there.”
Musk has revealed in the past that his own experience in public school was horrible, riddled with both bullying and lessons that were neither valuable nor interesting.
Musk doesn’t even care if his employees have college degrees. He told Auto Bild in 2014 that an applicant’s formal education is not a priority for him.
“There’s no need even to have a college degree, or even
high school really. If someone graduates from a good university that may be an
indication that they are capable of great things but that is not necessarily
the case,” Musk said.
Musk has been gotten into a few interesting Twitter exchanges on this topic also. Last year, Musk responded to a Tweet that said “You can’t succeed in life without a degree. That’s why you need schooling if you want to go to Harvard.”
“That’s not true. Don’t confuse schooling with
education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did,” Musk
said in response.


In the interview, Musk says.
“I didn’t see the regular schools doing the things I
thought should be done…Some people love English or languages. Some people love
math. Some people love music. Different abilities, different times. It makes
more sense to cater the education to match their aptitudes and abilities.”
He went on to explain how hands-on experience is more important than making children memorize and regurgitate answers to questions.
“It’s important to teach problem-solving, or teach to
the problem and not the tools. Let’s say you’re trying to teach people about
how engines work. A more traditional approach would be saying, ‘we’re going to
teach all about screwdrivers and wrenches.’ This is a very difficult way to do
it,” he said.
Musk then explained that it is better to actually let them take apart an engine, in real life, and figure it out for themselves.
“How are we going to take it apart? You need a
screwdriver. That’s what the screwdriver is for. And then a very important
thing happens: The relevance of the tools becomes apparent,” he said.
If one of the most brilliant inventors and entrepreneurs in the world doesn’t trust his children’s brains in the hands of the government, maybe you should reconsider your choices if you currently have children in public school.
The learning process consists of video-based instruction, computer graded assignments and a dashboard which allows the student and parent to track progress.
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