Elon Musk on schools treating kids like factory parts
Elon Musk says the way schools handle kids is broken. He compares it to a factory assembly line, treating students like parts. #ElonMusk
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Generally you want education to be like as close to a video game as possible, like a good video game. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling and far easier to do. So you really want to disconnect the whole grade level thing from the subjects. allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject. It seems like a really obvious thing. I mean, I think like most teaching today is a lot like vaudeville where, and as a result, it's just not that compelling. It's like somebody is standing up there and lecturing to you and they've done the same lecture several years in a row. They're not necessarily all that engaged in doing it. Do you agree with Peter Thiel about the unnecessariness of university higher education A university education is often unnecessary That not to say it unnecessary for all people but I think you probably learn about as much, the vast majority of what you're going to learn there in the first two years, and most of it is from your classmates. Now for a lot of companies, they do want to see the completion of the degree, because they're looking for someone who's going to persevere and see it through to the end. And that's actually what's important to them. So it really depends on what somebody's goal is. If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college. So I think that's how it should be. And it shouldn't be that you've got like these grades where people move in lockstep. And so everyone goes through, you know, goes like normally, you know, will go through English, math, science and so forth from like fifth grade to sixth grade to seventh grade like it's an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line. That's a ridiculous notion.
