Background:
Elon Musk: The world's richest man, worth 1.29 trillion yuan
Elon Musk has six children, twins and triplets in teens, and the youngest is born to him and his current partner, musician Grimes
Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla and SpaceX) said watching videos and playing games is the trend of the future of education.
His five oldest children now attend Ad Astra, a secret school founded by Elon Musk.
Elon Musk said that most of his child's knowledge comes from the Internet.
The big boss of Tesla and SpaceX is the father of six children, five of whom are still in school. He was asked about education in interviews.
Today, let's take a look at the world's richest man, Elon Musk, known as "Iron Man", what he thinks of modern education
In September 2019, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was at the SpaceX launch base
In the interview we asked Musk what he thinks is the best way to educate a 5-year-old in today's world. And what he expects from the education industry over the next 5 to 10 years.
"Well, as far as I've observed, my kids are mostly educated on YouTube (the world's largest video site) and Reddit (similar to the domestic Tieba newspaper)"
Musk continues:
"Kids also have classes at school, but most of their learning is actually done online."
Musk believes that the Internet has played an important role in educating children
Musk added that he believes education should be "as fun and exciting as possible," and that considering education from a video game perspective, for example, can help kids be more engaged.
Musk says:
"If kids can be very engaged in video games, then they have a way to devote themselves to learning."
This is an advertisement for the Astra Astronautical Academy, co-founded by Musk.
Musk said his children will also learn from other classmates, which should refer to other children at Musk's Astra Academy.
The school, which he co-founded in 2014, is designed not only to attend school for his children, but also for the children of SpaceX employees. According to documents filed by Astra College with the IRS, the school does not have a grade system, and as of 2018, the secret school had just over 40 students.
Astra Academy's courses focus on artificial intelligence, programming, and applied sciences. Sports and music are not included in the curriculum, nor are foreign languages included in the curriculum, as Musk believes that real-time translation software will soon make the teaching of the subject irrelevant.
Astra College was previously located in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, USA, with a $7 million property value. But Musk sold the property last October, so no one knows where the secret school is moving at the moment.
Elon Musk, ex-wife Tallura Riley and brother Kimbal Musk, and Elon Musk's two sons
Musk's older children are twins of 17 years old who may be coming to the end of their studies at Astra College. He also has 15-year-old triplets and a 9-month-old baby.
Musk and his youngest child
Musk is notoriously skeptical of traditional education. In an interview last March, Musk described the university as a bunch of "annoying homework" and said,
"One of the main values of going to college is that students can get along with their peers before they join the workforce."
In October 2019, at a press conference held at SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, Elon Musk said so
"I think college is basically for fun, to prove that you can do housework, but not for study," he said.
Musk has said he opposes requiring future employees to have college degrees. In March, he said that Tesla's recruitment materials did not mention that the company needed a bachelor's degree, calling the prerequisite "ridiculous."
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