Joe Liemandt

There's two stories here on this was back to when I moved my kid over years ago, Brian, who was the co-founder with McKinsey of Alpha.

I asked him, I was like, what's something that I don't believe about education that I need to know?

He's like, kids must love school.

The first commitment of Alpha is kids will love school.

And I'm like, oh, school's sort of like Spanish sometimes.

It sort of sucks and all that stuff.

He's like, you are wrong.

Kids must love school.

That couldn't be more true, which is if we're going to fix education, we have to wake up every day and realize why don't we make these dozen years for kids?

We spend plenty of money.

We spend plenty of money.

We spend a trillion dollars for K-12 in this country to make kids love school, put them in class for six hours, give them homework, make it a very terrible environment.

We're not doing that.

But we need to change it so they love school.

And that's tied into how you have to solve the motivation.

If you want them to learn, you have to do that.

And just back to the ed tech, one last thing on the ed tech is ed tech has five or 10% of kids who do well with it, right?

And there's a whole paper out called the 5% solution where the successes around ed tech are basically there's a set of kids who love academics for academic sake and learning more.

They're self-motivated, high conscientiousness, often high IQ kids who do really well in the current existing system.

And you give them apps and they do it.