Thrun didn't really fail. Public education failed. You can't educate someone in one semester. Thrun is trying to actually teach understanding. But in all their

Thrun didn't really fail. Public education failed. You can't educate someone in one semester. Thrun is trying to actually teach understanding. But in all their lives, students never needed to understand anything. They just needed to memorize formulas and apply them so they could pass the stupid tests that teachers made up. And that is the real failing.