Building Disruptor Labs — My On Deck Demo Day Project

Our education system is flawed. We don’t know how to prepare students for 2030. We aren’t teaching them about emerging technology, design, entrepreneurship and we are failing to each them about real world skills. Students don’t know how to build a network, share their knowledge publicly through articles, youtube videos, or tweets. Students leave high school, enter college and recycle their learnings from high school.

Study. Get good grades. Repeat.

They’re immersed in an intellectual blackhole that incentivizes a student’s ability to pass vs. learn.

We’re wasting human potential.

Thoughts on current education

My cynical view on education is that it is horrific and we’re creating mediocre employees and high quality online pessimists who can’t solve real world problems so they oppose Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, etc for their successes.

I started thinking about this problem in 2017 as I entered high school. I wondered why students were set up in rows and columns facing a whiteboard and the teacher’s desk. I experienced the same style of teaching in middle school but went to a montessori elementary school. The dichotomy between the styles of education become more obvious to me and I struggled to make sense of the way students were learning in conventional classrooms.

Throughout the past 4 years I’ve gathered tons of anecdotal data and have used this as…