Why Elon Musk Built a School for His Kids

Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom

Thank you to our Patrons, including Ronil Patel, Chesky Neceski, Austin Grant, Darren Tyrell-Knights, Tom Eng, Tim Desir, Justin Anderson, Neo Ge

Sources:

[Dipole__]

Just found out that Elon Musk just donated $5 million to Khan Academy. Khan really helped me learn a lot of things back in the days. I thought i wouldn't love this man any further!

[NP]

I wish he created a whole network of schools like that. That could revolutionize education entirely. Imagine millions of children learning like that. That would've truely prepared the human race to an inter-planetary age.

[_percent]

Elon Musk Mentality:

"I don't like our schools, I'll make my own."

"I don't like our cars, I'll make my own."

"I don't like our rockets, I'll make my own."

"I don't like our highways, I'll make my own."

"I don't like our energy companies, I'll make my own."

"I don't like our planet, I'll go to another one."

[thelonercoder]

Musk is literally always ahead of the curve. He'll def be in history books 50-100 years from now lol.

[RainH]

My parents always told me the same thing, "That's just how it is" and it bothered me so much. I am so glad that Elon Musk is taking a step towards the right direction.

[arunkumartv]

It's important to put critical thinking in children. It also important to know about society.. empathy.. literature is the key for that. So it's important to teach literature too.

[varaprasadperchalla]

This is what I call learning for the future.

[_AValerio]

I hope they also teach personal finance at some point! Taxes, better money habits, savings accounts, investing etc.

[jelena]

Once I asked the math teacher how the functions are applied and where. And I said I felt, in order to fully understand, I needed to understand connection to real life. But instead of giving me the answer she shamed me for asking it and told me not everything has to be applied.

[mariacheebandidos]

the irony about this "dropped out of college narrative"
the examples they often use (gates and jobs) don't encourage it and sent their own kids to the best schools.
they always use the handful of examples who succeeded despite dropping out, not the millions who didn't fare so well because they dropped out.

[ba-dum-tss]

This man is like a fictional protagonists but he's real and his goals are real one of a kind

[cold]

Best narrator in history. It’s fair to say you giving the National Geographic narrator competition.

[leroyonuoha]

“Not to mention many successful people dropped outta college, like bill gates and Steve jobs” Bill dropped outta Harvard😭😭

[eherrmann]

That was the slickest segues into a paid promotion I've seen in a long time, good job!

[IsMaski]

Elon is a man of values. He continuesly follows them and it allows him to do what he loves. The raging fire and passion in him to make things work is truly admirable. He is doing as much as he can to save this planet and humanity..

[davidmacphee]

I can't wait for Cindy to get her first YouTube Award!

[accsub]

Wooww.. She explained it beautifully and how smoothly she shifted to the sponsor. Of course I have seen her doing it earlier in other video, but this is the smoothest I feel. Way to go Cindy!!

[willlathrop]

Videos are getting better and better! Great job Cindy.

[TheLastCodebender]

Funny coincidence: I was just randomly reading about Ad Astra two days ago and you released this video now!

[ZameerHJ]

All I know is it’s going to be crazy when the first humans land on Mars in a SpaceX rocket... it’s like the culmination of a dream. Hope this school expands. More kids need this type of education.