5. Among the world’s
children starting
grade school this
year, 65% will end
up doing jobs that
haven’t even been
invented yet.
Salman Khan
The One World School House
(2012)
6. The troubling
factor is that
our current system
of testing and
grading tends to
filter out the creative,
different-thinking
people who are most
likely to make major
contributions
to a field.
Salman Khan
7. We teach and test things that most students
have no interest in and will never need, and facts
that they can Google and forget as soon as the test
is over.
The Week Magazine
10. Technology is improving exponentially
Time
Change
Technoloical
Possibility
The Reality Gap
Real Life
11. Online Learning is hitting a tipping point
Computer based learning
is becoming a practical
option for most students
12. The Birth of Hackschooling
Rather than pursue a straight-run through of high school and college,
innovators are piecing together their own custom learning experiences based
on a mixture of real world experiences and personalised modular classes.
14. Since we can’t
predict exactly
what todays’ young
people will need
to know in ten or
twenty years, what
we teach them is
less important than
how they learn to
teach themselves.
Salman Khan
15. The History of Educational Outliers
Da Vinci was the son of a nobleman and a
peasant woman and was educated at home. No
formal schooling, the village priest taught him
the basics. Leonardo da Vinci was self taught.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific
and influential composer of the Classical era.
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his
earliest childhood. In today’s language Mozart
would be considered a “home-schooled” prodigy.
16. Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess
grandmaster. She is by far the
strongest female class player in
history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the
title of Grandmaster at the age of
15 years and 4 months, the youngest
person ever to do so at that time.
Judit was the product of an
educational experiment. Her father
recruited a wife and picked chess as
a random subject. Her two sisters are
also Grandmasters.
Geniuses are
made, not born
László Polgár
17. The 10,000Hour Rule
Superstar lawyers, math whizzes and software entrepreneurs
appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience, but
they don’t. They are products of history and community,
of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional
or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and
inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just
plain lucky, but all critical to making them who they are.
The outlier in the end, is not an outlier at all.
Malcom Gladwell
18. The 10,000Hour Rule
The lesson is very simple, but it is striking how often it is
overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and
brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring
naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates
and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old
to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur, but that’s
the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old
unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a
million teenagers had been given the same opportunity,
how many more Microsofts would we have today?
Malcom Gladwell
19. But Wait – The
Exception to That Rule
It is possible to become world-
class in just about anything
in six months or less. Armed
with the right framework,
you can seemingly perform
miracles, whether with
Spanish, swimming or
anything else in between
Tim Ferris
20. The Emergence of New Educational Outliers
Jack Andraka is the
sixteen-year-old discoverer of
a testing strip that detects the
early signs of pancreatic cancer.
Taylor Ramon Wilson is an
American nuclear scientist. In
2008, at age 14, he became the
youngest person in the world to
build a working fusor.
22. What if there was a place your child
could go that made learning fun
and inspired them every single day?
23. What if there was a place
your child could go that allowed
their creaticity to flourish?
24. What if there was a place
your child could go where they
could test their ideas with the
newest cutting edge technology and
be mentored by some of the most
inspirational people on the planet?
25. What if there was a place
your child could go where they could
develop ideas to solve humanity’s
biggest problems?
26. What if there was a place
where you could unlock your child’s
limitless potential?
27.
28. The highest impact
education space on Earth.
Providing the mindset,
skillset and toolset.
To make he impossible possible.
29. You cannot
predict the
outcome of human
development. All
you can do is like a
farmer, create the
conditions under
which it will begin
to flourish.
Sir Ken Robinson
30. The hardest part
is already done.
We already
believe that this
can be achieved.
We believe in the
limitless potential
of our childen.
31. What is Next?
• To create a pioneer program and location for 20 self taught
eleven to fourteen-year-olds in The Bay Area.
• To invest in them the resources to allow them to achieve
their limitless potential.
• The radical re-invention of the upper limit for
child education
32. What is required to make this happen?
• A ‘whatever it takes’ approach to funding.
• Partnerships with cutting edge technology firms.
• Access to world changing faculty.
• Management and delivery teams.
33. What is the future of Born Limitless?
• To create a permanent education space that constantly looks
to maximise the limits of human potential.
• To open source the findings to the remainder of the planet.
• To catalyse a new educational paradigm.
34. If you can contribute in any
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