Reed Hastings

And there's quite a range of them.

There's no one learning style for charter schools.

So it's more like a governance change, again, where they're run by a nonprofit.

I mean, it's important to everybody, so I don't think that's unique.

Sure, I could be working on environment or aquaculture, lots of things.

Right out of university, I became a math teacher.

I was a Peace Corps math teacher in Swaziland, which is between South Africa and Mozambique.

and spent two and a half years teaching and so later in life when i became a philanthropist it was the thing i knew a little bit about um so i i would have to say it's a bit random in that way but then you know what i counsel people is all the problems that we have in society today

are the ones our parents and grandparents couldn't solve.

They're selected to be quite challenging.

So if you dig yourself into one major societal problem and spend your life on that, that's a great outcome, you know, to try to make a difference in one of these hard problems.

Well, I came to believe that the government running the schools was sort of the essence of the problem and that it would be better and more effective to have nonprofits.

Like if you look at the university sector, you know, in all of our top universities, they're all nonprofits.

And so it's modeling on that.

So it's a shift from kind of more government bureaucratic control to nonprofit control.

Well, I think tech is probably the biggest driver of that, which is if we can have AI tutors that are, like in Khan Academy's case, free or low cost in other cases on tablets that are widely available.

I think that's an incredibly great way to expand the franchise of learning.

Mostly I'd focus on school choice and giving teachers the tools to create a school because you get that flourishing of, you know, there's lots of teachers who have very good ideas about what would be the perfect public school, at least for some sector of kids.

But they have no way to do that in the current system.

So it's then allowing them, supporting them to create a nonprofit, to create a school, and then to give the parents the choice to join that school or not.