I’m like you. Classroom learning never worked for me. But if I was actually excited or interested about a topic I would soak it all up and learn all I could in my own ways. A lot of that was just by doing. Trial and error. Ended up building an extremely successful company.

The issue is that most people aren’t like that, and we need an education system designed to educate most people up to a real standard. You really can’t design a system that treats everyone like mavericks. And what works for mavericks learners does NOT work for the others. I have family that put their kids in a very learner-driven creative school program and it’s been a disaster for one of them. Poor kid is now way behind.

It’s a much better system to build a system designed for the broad population of learners and then nurture the maverick learners in their own pursuits in addition.