They thought Elon Musk was retarded. That’s what Walter Isaacson reports in his biography of Musk about the teachers at Musk’s elementary school. Musk’s response to Isaacson was “I wasn’t really going to put an effort into things I thought were meaningless.”
From Musk’s reply readers can hopefully see true hope for education. Opposite members of the right, it won’t be fixed with more government (educational vouchers, tuition tax credits), nor will it be fixed if the left gets its way and more resources are directed to teachers and administrators. Both sides imply that progress can be had with government as the planner, and much more disturbingly, both sides imply that the problem with education has to do with kids failing to learn the same subjects that schools have been teaching for centuries. Imagine a business owner proposing more of the same to investors...
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