Mackenzie Price
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And I'll give you an example.
We have a student who graduated from Alpha, and she's at Stanford University, which is one of the very top colleges in the United States.
She's a math major, and she walked into a lecture as a freshman.
And the professor is not a great professor, known to be a bad professor, has a very, very strong accent so that the kids had a hard time understanding her.
And our student kind of said, well, you know what?
I guess I'll just learn this on my own.
I'll use an app just like she did in high school at Alpha.
I'll use an app to learn this.
I won't worry about what the teacher is doing or not doing.
And at the end of the quarter, she had the highest grade in the class.
And her classmates, these are kids from Stanford University, smart, sharp kids, said, well, we couldn't learn because the professor was bad.
And again, that should never be that excuse.
So I think when we think about what higher ed is going to do, and I've had university presidents reach out to me asking for things, I believe that the basic lecture courses should be done using an AI tutor type of format.
In fact, Harvard University just did a study they released last year that showed that an AI tutor
was better for students to learn any engagement than a Harvard professor in a physics course.
So I think you'd have that.
But then what would be cool is as you make sure you've got kind of everyone's got the base knowledge, then to go into smaller discussion-based seminars and go out and get real-world experience.
That's what's going to be really helpful.
And actually, that's something that our students, you know, again, starting very young, our guides can't possibly be expected to be experts in how to run a food truck, how to be a triathlete, how to do, you know, Tai Chi, how to do, you know, all these, how to create a musical, whatever it is.
But what they do is they help students learn how to reach out and become experts and find experts in their field of interest.