Mackenzie Price

wildly different levels of knowledge.

So you've got a fifth grade class, you know, take a bunch of 11-year-olds, and some of those kids are very advanced and could be doing work above grade level.

Some of those kids are behind, and they could be behind one, two, three grades even.

And a teacher has no choice but to teach the curriculum that has been assigned for that grade, no matter where it hits kids.

And it's just a wildly inefficient model.

And one of the things that's really interesting to think about, you know, you're in Australia, I'm in the United States.

If you go to a rural school in Africa...

or you go to one of the most high-end private schools in Sydney, you're basically gonna see the same thing, which is this teacher in front of a classroom model of education.

You know, the building might be a little nicer in one or the other.

And the challenge for that is that it's very hard for kids to learn when they're not given material at the level or the pace that they need to learn.

And for me, this turned really personal at two different points in my life.

First of all, when I was growing up going to school, I was one of those kids who was actually very good at school, but I hated it.

What about you guys?

Did you guys like school growing up?

I hated it as well.

You did.

Okay.

So we're kindred spirits in this thing.

And, you know, when I was growing up, I was always that kid who would like raise my hand and ask the teacher, like, why do I need to know this?

You know, what's the reason for needing to know this?