Vinod Khosla on Education

Vinod Khosla on Education: Vinod Khosla on Will we need teachers or algorithms?

We have focused so much of our education system on children attending primary school, then middle school, then high school, all with the objective of attending university. This is a progression that still remains unchanged and largely unchallenged. Yet, this system is completely linear and, most tragically, unwaveringly standardized not only through instruction methods, but also through testing. Worse, it is mostly what I call “fixed time, variable learning” (the four-year high school) instead of “fixed learning, variable time” to account for individual students’ capabilities and status.

Vinod goes on to discuss decentralization and gamification as two trends to watch out for.