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Musk wants to subvert education
Elon Musk, who has just become the world's richest man, is known as the "Iron Man of Silicon Valley", busy building rockets to fly mars, while making Tesla unimpeded underground, and digging tunnels under Las Vegas.
Musk did almost all of it "heaven and earth" things.
But Musk also did something that many people wanted to do but did not dare to do.
At 1 Rocket Road in Hawthorne, California, yes, is home to the headquarters of Musk's space exploration company, SpaceX.
In a mysterious corner of the campus sits a small school called "Ad Astra" (Toward the Stars). The investor in this school is Musk.
It was founded in 2014 with musk investing nearly a million dollars, and the name is derived from the Latin famous phrase "Per Aspera Ad Astra" (through the ups and downs, finally reaching the stars), and also the same name as Brad Pitt's new 2019 film "Ad Astra "Star Exploration".
Curiously, for many years since the school was founded, little was known to the outside world.
The only video of the principal Joshua Dahn being interviewed by the commercial media was quickly deleted as soon as it went online.
Apparently, Musk is not willing to let this school enter the public eye.
So, what's so special about this school?
So, what\\\\\'s so special about this school?
Unlike most schools, this school gives its own positioning on the official website:
Ad Astra School is an experimental school located on the campus of a rocket company. We serve kind, imaginative, and academically motivated students between the ages of 8 and 14.
Ade Astra School is an experimental school located in the Rocket Company campus. We serve kind, imaginative, academically motivated students aged 8 to 14.
Students all over the world are experiencing what the school allocates, and the students get what they get.
But Musk believes that children should let them learn what they like.
"What I'm going to do is a very different way of teaching. Let education adapt to children, not children adapt to education. ”
What I want to do is a completely different method of teaching. Make the education adapt to children rather than children adapt to the education.
In an effort to change, Musk invested in the creation of Ad Astra, a school in which Musk upended the traditional education system.
Abolish the grade system
Abolish the grade system
Ad Astra began by abolishing the grade-level system, which is widely used around the world, not through age, but through ability and interest assessments, and to group students into different study groups.
If an 8-year-old has shown a clear talent for math, he can go to math class with his 12-year-old. This approach seems to be out of the ordinary, but it is actually more logical and closer to reality.
In real society, the essence of deciding whether you want to do something, the first is interest, and the second is whether you have made corresponding preparations, which is not directly related to the age number on your ID card.
Forcing a person's role and progress in society based on age, Musk's school believes that this "one-size-fits-all" approach can easily hurt an individual's unique talents and specific needs.
"Some people like English or other languages, others like math, and some people love music. Different abilities, different times, so that education can be done to match a person's talent and ability is more reasonable. ”
Teacher qualification certificate? Not required.
The teacher certification？It is not necessary.
Musk believes that teachers do not necessarily need professional teacher qualifications.
Many of the teachers in this school are not from the class, have not received formal teacher training, and have no qualifications. Here I like to let the mathematicians whose minds "explode" to teach mathematics, and the painters whose art cells "explode" to teach art.
Ad Astra does not develop a solid curriculum, but rather flexibly constructs a curriculum framework based on the availability of existing faculty.
There is a common characteristic of teachers who are not from the class, they often do not systematically instill the entire knowledge system, and sometimes do not necessarily take care of the child's receptivity, and the lectures are both in-depth and fast.
But Musk is willing to accept this approach, and it can even be said that he just wants this effect - in real society, no one will be as patient and slow as a teacher to teach information, which is especially like "the old man chasing the child to feed".
Musk hopes that the children in this school, like in the real world, need to seize every opportunity, try to absorb nutrients and get inspiration.
At Ad Astra, children read extensively, ask for advice from experts in various fields, communicate freely with their classmates, and draw nourishment from different lessons. This learning experience, similar to "self-wandering the world", makes children naturally fall in love with learning and curiosity, and come to school happily every day.
Uniform school uniform? No, you don't.
Uniform school uniforms? Unwanted.
Almost all schools require children to "wear a uniform to go to school", and there will be some requirements for students' hairstyles, no strange costumes, no exaggerated styling, sitting posture, standing posture, walking and all other behaviors, there will be standards to follow, children grow up under various annual rules from an early age.
But on the other hand, children's personality development is indeed sacrificed to some extent.
Ad Astra hopes to nurture a free-growing soul. Whether dressed up or taught in the classroom, children can make willful choices. In addition to the lessons from Monday to Wednesday, thursdays and Fridays are time for children to work together as a team.
In the process of teamwork, children can freely form teams to complete a specific project together - it may be proposed by the teacher, or it may be initiated by the children themselves, as long as it is related to the learning knowledge points at that time.
In the process of completing the team project, children will have great freedom and flexibility to think and solve problems in their own way.
examination? textbook? homework? None!
Exams? textbooks？homework？
All of them are not here.
In Musk's school, science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) as the core education, equipped with a much richer subject setting than the same stage of the school.
In addition to conventional mathematics, nature, history, art, computers and business, the hottest artificial intelligence has also been added to the curriculum. Students will be exposed to topics such as design programming, artificial intelligence, robotics, rocket launchers, etc., such as making electromagnetic pulse technology, weather balloons, etc.
In addition, the school often invites scholars and experts in various fields to share. The school also often organizes seminars similar to TED Talks, allowing students to present their views and defend their ideas.
Ad Astra believes that an environment should be created for children to explore their talents, slowly find what they want to do, and in order to focus their ultimate interests, let children be exposed to different things widely.
Every year, the school's curriculum is renovated, and about half of the teaching content is decided by the students themselves.
Not only that, but the school has no exams, no textbooks, and no homework in the traditional sense.
Students learn by designing, completing, and presenting group projects to receive relevant assessments.
Here, they have in common with the fairy tale schools of magic: knowledge does not need to be painfully instilled, and the free nature of children is not contradictory to academic achievement. Knowledge doesn‘t need to be painfully instilled,the free natures of children are not contradictory with learning successfully.
Let the students look forward to the start of school, look forward to the class, look forward to learning interesting knowledge. Musk's Ad Astra did just that, and he once again pulled the fantasy into reality.
It can be said that Musk is really great! Musk mentioned for the first time in an interview with "Yang Lan's Interview":
He had his five children drop out of america's top private school and send them to the mystery school.
Musk, known as the "Iron Man of Silicon Valley," is arguably one of the most capable CHIEF Executive Officers (CEOs) on earth, founding the most successful private rocket company in history, the world's most successful car company, and a controversial solar company.
Not only that, but he has created a disruptive school that countless students dream of: no grades, no uniforms, no exams, no homework, and even no teachers!
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