Schools should look more like YCombinator. They *get* Project-Based Learning. In this thread, I'll talk about 10 things @ycombinator gets right about the future of childhood education. 👇↗

New blog post: Video Games are the Future of Education. Via chess, Feynman, proprioception, "deep understanding", and simulations :) nabeelqu.co/education↗

The state of online learning: 1) YouTube will eat the low-end of the market. 2) People will pay 5-15x more for live courses. 3) The three biggest competitive advantages are the personality of a creator, the warmth of the community, and the quality of the student experience.↗

The school I want to build: 1) Start writing 2) Build an online audience 3) Start a company in your niche Graduate once you have a profitable business.↗

How Online Course Marketing Works I've taught more than 500 students in my online writing course. Here's what I've learned about marketing. 1. Start with an audience: Online education is a marketing business. The success of your course depends on the quality of your audience.↗

This pandemic will hopefully mark the end of the perversion of higher education. Since the 1980s, kids and parents have been forced to play a series of stupid finite games - grades, extra curriculars, influence peddling, donations for infinite assets: skills and knowledge.↗

I recently spent $1,000 on an online writing class. ✏️ Coughing up that sum of cash was not an easy choice. But I learned more in five weeks than I did in four years of college. Here are some of the key takeaways @levnaginsky and I came away with: …↗

I had an epiphany today about how we could literally unlock the entire egghead catalog and still function as a profitable company 🤔↗

What is the best online course you have ever taken?↗

Schools are moving online. Here are 10 ways online education is better than the traditional model, especially for kids. 1. Ship Fast, Ship Often: Traditional school is too passive. Students learn best when they make things. The more students create, the faster they’ll learn.↗

Deep Dive into education: - Current problems in k-12 & higher ed - Future of k-12 & higher ed - 3 waves of ed-tech - Opportunities for startups in the space, including homeschool, credentialing, unbundling & rebundling the university, and more Thread👇↗

Schools are closing. Thousands of teachers will be teaching online for the first time in their lives, and students deserve to keep learning. Here’s my advice to teachers. 1. Bring extra energy: You need extra energy when you’re teaching online. Turn up your energy by 50%.↗

Let’s face it, our education system is obsolete. It’s outdated. It’s outrageous. It’s broken. New and bold alternatives are already being tested out there. My bet? Online education will have a groundbreaking impact in the way future generations learn. Here's why👇↗

Unbundling the university: - liberal arts - technical education - summer camp - dating market - sports - co-living - salons - hedge fund - 4 year vacation - flirting w/ marxism - coming of age - alumni network - credential - prestige - insurance policy - identity - coming of age↗

8. The future of education does not look like you think it does. It looks like Y-Combinator. Here’s why: • Respected credential • Teams of peers and mentors • Participants learn by doing • Attracts a global pool of talent • The organization competes for top talent.↗

Education is broken. Here is what the future of education will look like: 1. Teaching will become an extremely lucrative profession. Salaries will follow a power law. The best teachers will make millions of dollars per year and teach thousands of students per year.↗

The credential is the last element to be unbundled from college: - education (MOOCs) - networks (accelerators) - credentials (stay tuned) My bet: P2P credentials If I trust you & you say X is the best young person you've worked with, that means more to me than a Harvard degree↗

Sharing Lambda School's full-time & part-time schedule (schedule alternates between A weeks and B weeks).↗

Online education is taking off. But the courses on the future will look nothing like the courses of today. The best ones will be: • Active, not passive. • Communal, not solo. • Responsive, not static. • Live, not recorded. It’s happening. Education is finally improving.↗

Lambda School but for __________ instead of programming↗

@eriktorenberg @jrdngonen @dksf @CaseyNeistat @368 YC took off in part because of the lack of education and a playbook for starting a company and raising money. I’m not sure YC would be a fraction of what it is today if it started in 2018. So, which industries today have a simil…↗