I'm a firm believer that formal education is obsolete, school is counterproductive and the whole institution and paradigm behind it is nothing more than hazing.

I'm a firm believer that formal education is obsolete, school is counterproductive and the whole institution and paradigm behind it is nothing more than hazing. I believe that everything academic that we want to teach young people, that is, everything other than what can only be learned through experience, can be taught in less than half the time we set aside in their lives for them to learn it. So when I see tools like Anki, and people using it to teach their 2 year olds to read, it validates my ideas. I intend to teach my children reading, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, the civic structure of their society, financial competence, household management, basic physics enough to understand the world around them, and good vocabulary by the age of 10. I intend to use a process that instils a sense of curiosity enough that they'll then go on to learn about topics they're interested in at their leisure. I think the Internet's most powerful impact has been universal access to unbelievable amounts of knowledge, and I'd like to leverage that once unfathomable access that I've enjoyed as an adult to help them learn at a young age, I think one day it will be joked about that in our time a 12 year old doesn't know what a quark is, that people paid institutions significant sums just to learn about a topic, that knowledge credentials were the limiting factor in what work you could do. It really is an amazing time to be alive.