Elon Musk learning method
Summary
TLDRIn this video script, the speaker argues against the necessity of college for learning, suggesting that education should be engaging and interactive like a video game. They emphasize the importance of teaching problem-solving skills and tailoring education to individual aptitudes and interests. The speaker shares their experience creating a school without grades, where children progress at their own pace and learn through hands-on activities. They also discuss the value of perseverance and the role of education in proving one's ability to work hard.
Takeaways
- 📚 Learning is accessible for free online, challenging the necessity of traditional college education for acquiring knowledge.
- 🏫 The value of college lies in demonstrating one's ability to work hard and complete tasks, rather than solely for learning.
- 👨🎓 College can serve as a social environment, allowing individuals to interact with peers before entering the workforce.
- 💼 For exceptional individuals, evidence of ability is more important than a college degree, with examples like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs dropping out of college.
- 🎮 Education should be engaging and interactive, akin to a video game, to increase its appeal and effectiveness.
- 🚀 Progress in education should not be tied to grade levels but should allow individuals to advance at their own pace in subjects they are interested in.
- 🛠️ Teaching should focus on problem-solving skills rather than just teaching tools, making learning more relevant and practical.
- 🌟 The speaker founded a school called Ad Astra, which emphasizes individualized learning without traditional grade levels.
- 🤔 Traditional teaching methods are compared to vaudeville, suggesting they are outdated and lack engagement.
- 🎓 The necessity of a college degree is questioned, especially for those aiming to start their own companies, where perseverance and ability might be more valued.
Q & A
What is the main value of college according to the speaker?
-The main value of college is to demonstrate one's ability to work hard, including enduring annoying homework assignments and persevering through challenges.
Why does the speaker believe that college is not primarily for learning?
-The speaker believes that learning can be done for free through various resources, and that college serves more as a place to prove one's ability to complete tasks and chores.
What does the speaker suggest about the necessity of having evidence of exceptional ability?
-The speaker implies that having evidence of exceptional ability is important, but attending college is not necessarily considered such evidence. Instead, dropping out to do something exceptional is often seen as more indicative of exceptional ability.
How does the speaker compare education to video games?
-The speaker suggests that education should be as engaging as a video game, which naturally motivates people to participate without needing external encouragement.
What does the speaker propose about the structure of education in terms of grade levels?
-The speaker proposes disconnecting grade levels from subjects, allowing individuals to progress at their own pace in each subject according to their interests and abilities.
Why does the speaker think that traditional teaching methods are similar to vaudeville?
-The speaker compares traditional teaching to vaudeville because it often involves a lecturer delivering the same lecture year after year, which can lack engagement and enthusiasm.
What is the name of the school the speaker created and what is its main philosophy?
-The school is called Ad Astra, and its main philosophy is to provide education without traditional grade levels, catering to each child's aptitudes and abilities.
How does the speaker approach teaching problem-solving in his school?
-The speaker teaches problem-solving by focusing on the problem first and then introducing the tools needed to solve it, rather than teaching about the tools in isolation.
What is the speaker's opinion on the relevance of traditional educational tools and methods?
-The speaker believes that the relevance of traditional educational tools and methods is often lost, and that a more practical, problem-based approach is more effective.
Why does the speaker think gamifying the learning process is beneficial?
-The speaker believes that gamifying learning makes it more compelling and enjoyable, which can lead to better engagement and retention of information.
What is the speaker's view on the necessity of a university education for starting a company?
-The speaker suggests that there is no point in finishing college if the goal is to start a company, as the perseverance and ability to complete tasks are more important than a degree.
Outlines
🎓 The Value of College Education and Learning
The speaker argues that traditional college education is not primarily for learning, as most knowledge can be acquired for free. Instead, college serves as a proving ground for one's ability to work hard and complete tasks, including tedious homework. It also provides a social environment for young people. The speaker suggests that exceptional ability should be demonstrated through actions rather than just attending college. Notable figures like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are cited as examples of successful individuals who dropped out of college. The speaker advocates for an education system that is engaging and interactive, akin to a video game, allowing individuals to progress at their own pace in subjects they are interested in. The speaker also criticizes the current educational system for being too structured and not tailored to individual abilities and interests.
📚 Rethinking Traditional Education Methods
The speaker discusses the need to make education more engaging and relevant by focusing on problem-solving rather than rote learning of tools and techniques. The example of teaching about engines is used to illustrate the point that understanding the application of tools in a practical context is more effective than learning about them in isolation. The speaker also reflects on their own negative experiences with traditional schooling and contrasts it with the positive experiences of children at a school they founded, which emphasizes individualized learning and a problem-based approach. The school, named Ad Astra, does not use a traditional grade system and instead allows students to progress based on their interests and abilities. The speaker believes that this approach makes education more compelling and enjoyable for students.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡College Learning
💡Exceptional Ability
💡Interactive Learning
💡Gamification
💡Ad Astra School
💡Problem-Solving
💡Educational Relevance
💡Vaudeville
💡Grade Levels
💡Learning Pace
💡Student Engagement
Highlights
Learning is available for free, and the main value of college is to demonstrate hard work and perseverance.
Colleges are seen as places for socialization and proving one's ability to complete tasks rather than solely for learning.
Evidence of exceptional ability is required for exceptional achievements, and college attendance is not considered as such evidence.
Dropping out of college to pursue something significant is often highlighted by successful individuals like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Education should be as engaging as a video game, which naturally motivates learners without external pressure.
The traditional grading system should be disconnected from the pace of learning to allow individual progress.
Teaching should focus on problem-solving rather than just teaching tools, making learning more relevant and practical.
Ad Astra school, created by the speaker, has no grades and allows students to progress at their own pace based on their interests.
The school's approach is to cater education to match students' aptitudes and abilities, rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
Students at Ad Astra enjoy going to school, indicating a positive shift from traditional education experiences.
Education should be about downloading data and algorithms effectively, rather than a tedious process.
Gamifying the learning process can make education more compelling and enjoyable for students.
Many subjects taught in traditional education may not be relevant or used in the future, questioning their necessity.
The speaker's educational philosophy emphasizes the importance of teaching to the problem, not just the tools.
Ad Astra's educational model is designed to be engaging and interactive, making learning a more positive experience.
The speaker advocates for an educational system that is not an assembly line, respecting individual differences.
The speaker's own experience with traditional schooling was negative, motivating the creation of a more student-centered approach.
Transcripts
you don't need college learning learn
stuff okay
everything is available basically for
free
you can learn anything you want for free
it is not a question of learning
um
there there is
a value that colleges have which is like
you know seeing whether somebody's
is can somebody work hard at something
including a bunch of
sort of annoying homework assignments
and still do their homework assignments
uh and and kind of soldier through and
and get it done
you know that's
that's like
the main value of college and then also
you
you know if you you if you probably want
to hang around with a bunch of people
your own age for a while instead of
going right into the workforce
um
so i think colleges are basically for
fun and to prove you can do your chores
but they're not for learning
but there is a requirement of evidence
of exceptional ability
like you just can't if you're trying to
do something exceptional they must have
evidence of exceptional ability i don't
consider going to college evidence of
exceptional ability
in fact
ideally you dropped out and did
something
i mean obviously you know
you look at like you know
gates is a pretty smart guy he dropped
out uh john was pretty smart he dropped
out you know larry ellison smart guy he
dropped out like
obviously not needed
generally you want education to be like
as close to a video game as possible
like a good video game like
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 then you can make education
far more compelling and far easier to do
so you really want to
disconnect the whole grade level three
thing from the subjects allow people to
progress at the fastest pace that they
can or interested in in each subject
it seems like a really obvious thing
i mean i think like most teaching today
is is a lot like vaudeville
where
um
and it's and as a result it's just not
not that compelling it's like somebody's
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 or
in doing it do you agree with peter
thiel about the unnecessariness of
university higher education
a university education is often
unnecessary
that's not to say it's unnecessary for
all people but
i i think
you probably learn about as much or the
vast majority 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
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 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 uh
college um
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 we'll go through
english math
uh
science and so forth from like fifth
grade to sixth grade to seventh grade
like it's an assembly line uh but but
people are not objects on an assembly
line that's a ridiculous notion so how
would you educate your five boys
actually i created a little school
yeah what kind of school could you
subscribe to us sure it's i mean it's
small it's only got 14 kids now and
it'll have 20 kids in in september
um
it's called ad astra which means to the
stars that's maybe a bit different from
from most other schools is that there
aren't any grades there's no there's no
like not grade one grade two grade three
type of thing and making all the
children go and in the same grade at the
same time like an assembly line i know
um you know because some people love
english or languages some people love
math some people love music
and and different abilities different
times it makes more sense to to cater
the education to match their aptitudes
and abilities i think that's one
principle
another is
that it's important to teach
teach problem solving or teach to the
problem not to the tools
so this would be like
let's say
um
you're trying to teach people about uh
how engines work or you know you could
start by a more a more traditional
approach would be to say we're going to
teach you all about screwdrivers and
wrenches
and
and you're going to have a course on
screwdrivers or caution wrenches and all
these things and it's
this is a very difficult way to do it a
much better way would be like here's the
engine now let's take it apart how we're
going to take it apart oh you need a
screwdriver that's what the screwdriver
is for you need a wrench that's what the
wrench is for
um and then a very important thing
happens which is that the relevance of
the tools because it seems to be going
pretty well
i mean the kids really love going to
school i think that's a a good sign you
know i mean i hated going to school when
i was a kid it was torture
um so
the fact that they
like they actually think vacations are
too long
like they want to go back to school wow
yeah exactly weird i know
if you think you're like what is
education like you're basically
downloading data and algorithms into
your brain
and
it's it's actually
amazingly
bad in conventional education because
like it shouldn't be like this huge tour
like the more you can gamify
the uh the process of learning the
better like
and i think unfortunately like a lot of
education is very bored billion um
you've got
uh
someone standing up there kind of
lecturing at people
um and they've done the same lecture 20
years in a row and they're not very
excited about it and that lack of
enthusiasm you know is conveyed to the
students that they're not very excited
about it they don't know why they're
there like why are we learning this
stuff we don't even know why um in fact
i think a lot of things people learn
probably there's no point in learning
them
because they never use them in the
future
you
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