I have some thoughts about this piece. First of all, I want to acknowledge that education is valuable and I consider it to be a human right. Access to informat

I have some thoughts about this piece. First of all, I want to acknowledge that education is valuable and I consider it to be a human right. Access to information should be free and readily available. From this lens, however, I don't think the problems described in the article are truly what holds us back. Our decision makers and people in leadership positions are all highly, if not the highest, educated people in the world. So it is clear that more education doesn't necessarily bring better governance. Perhaps, one could argue, this is a failure of our education itself. People in elite schools aren't taught empathy, compassion, solidarity. But I assure you many would argue these are not core principles of an education. I wonder what the author thinks of this. Next, there's a claim that schools should be run as a start up; I think this comes from a place of hubris from a tech/finance oriented person. No. I believe the fact that we see children who we are educating as blank slates that need to be filled with numbers and words and not as people who are developing their autonomy and their knowledge with every experience is a huge flaw in our education systems. There should be plenty of space and opportunity for children themselves to participate in the kind of education they want to have. Listening and obeying what they want as the group of receiveds of education could change the face of schools. Start ups in their majority tend to fail, schools need to be reliable because they're the most important institution a child will interact with in their whole lives. In my opinion, schools should be run like consumer/workplace coops. With real, tangible, participation from all their actors. Ultimately, I think the worlds problems comes not from a lack of education but from educated people thinking that they know best. Discarding experiences and knowledge that comes from learning the everyday life as less meaningful than what can be learned from a textbook. We have a serious problem of listening to contrasting experiences and elites making unilateral decisions for everyone. If you treat society the same way you currently treat children in schools you're going to replicate the same problems from school in society as a whole. Children are rejecting the educational system and we think we know better than to ask them what's wrong and what do they want to do about it.