Stop Guessing About Your Child's Education: Data-Driven Learning with Dr. Peter Kim of FutureMap

That's amazing.

And your research is real, like you're a researcher.

So you're still publishing and a lot of educational entrepreneurs kind of come at it the business side first, but I think you come at it from the lab first.

How do you think that scientific mindset, being a scientist, how does that impact the way you tutor and the way you build educational products?

Yeah, so I think another very fascinating thing about science is that when you are in the deepest core of really researching new things, new equations, just new information about science, is that you see GCSE and A-level IB students, you look at their textbooks and you think, wow, this is where all this started from.

And the funny thing is what they teach in school is that they sort of think that the textbooks are the... like the Bible, right? It's, it's there.

It's, it's correct.

And you have to learn this line by line, which is okay in some ways.

Okay.

Fair enough.

But then what I found was that, you know, as, as a researcher myself, all this is kind of, it's, it's a template, right? so we are building from this knowledge bit by bit as each day as scientists discover more and more we're building onto that and that's why you know i've never thought about this before as a student but why would you but you know it says in every textbook it says edition one version one etc at the beginning of the textbook and it changes every few years and then now it makes sense to me that it's oh wow, okay, it's because all these amazing scientists around the world are doing more research and therefore textbooks are changing.

So what I try to, the way that I want to teach children, in science at least, because that's my topic, is that you need to be inspired you know, textbook isn't the end.

You have to understand that there is more in life and that, you know, if science is your interest and is your fuel, then you have to really get out there.

You have to be passionate about what you do.

And then you have to think, right, I'm going to set out.

This is my goal.

I'm going to do experiments.

I'm going to do research and I'm going to find new things that will help people and help others.

Yeah, that makes sense.

I came to science kind of late in life.

I'm not a scientist, but when I was in school, I didn't like science.

I didn't like memorizing.

That's all I thought science was, memorizing equations, memorizing codes, and the whole chemistry to me was just a constant series of trying to memorize a bunch of letters.

Later in life, I discovered that science was really about how things work.

And just kind of in that whole discovery and the scientific method, which oddly enough, I had learned quite effectively in my schooling.