How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt

When we sit and say we, we think people should reimagine education, right, for the next decade, e- over the next decade, for the next hundred years versus the last hundred years, it's development of the whole child.

McKinsey, who's the founder, right, the co-founder, her favorite line, which we believe super strongly at Alpha, is, "This is the best time in history to be a five-year-old," which is our ability to make that first twelve years awesome and unlock their potential on all dimensions.

They get to love school for twelve years.

Their academics, they're gonna learn ten times faster.

These kids are gonna have a head full of knowledge that's more than what their parents had.

We're gonna be able to fill their head with knowledge.

The learning science shows that the more you know, the faster you learn, right? And so it's like ...

increasing.

And then the third part is the life skills that we think are important, they're gonna have most of their day to work on this.

They're gonna be able to sit here and say, "This AI world's coming.

Things are gonna change, and I get to go live and experience in that, and I get to do things." That framing we use about philosopher-builder.

Like, who are kids that are gonna come out of school? On the philosophy side, o- one, it's a proxy for good academics.

You can crush your academics and fill your head.

The other part is philosophy, which alternates over history between the most important thing and the least important major, I believe with AI is coming back into the fore.

Which is what's humans' role when there's all these AIs around, and what's the ex- existential debates, and what did all the great thinkers think about? And so you're gonna have things like that on the philosophy side, but the second part, and I believe sc- schools really need to do this, and this is what, when we think about the life skills, it's the builder side.

We need to create builders.

That is what kids need to be doing.

That's what adults need to be doing.

You can't just be thinking.

Schools can't be just sitting in class all day.

You have to build, and when kids get to build, whether it's physically in sports and on climbing or in building drones and robots or in building a business, I'm, I'm writing books, I'm making videos, whatever those programs are, that's what engages kids.

That's what they love, and we need to bring that back.

There's whole vocational programs now for high schoolers where it's like we're gonna have you learn how to do advanced manufacturing and build robots or things like that.

And, you know, 100 years ago or 50 years ago, shop class.

Mm.