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Unlocking the genius inside every child
We teach and test things that most students have no interest in and will never need together with facts that they can Google and forget as soon as the test is over.
The Week Magazine
There is a huge problem.
A really huge problem.The troubling fact is that our current system of testing and grading tends to filter out the creative, different-thinking people who are most likely to make major contributions to a field.Salman Khan
It requires a new kind of solution...Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.Rabindranath Tagore
with a new technological possibility.
Time
Change
TechnologicalPossibility
The Reality Gap
Real Life
Now that online learning is hitting a tipping point
Computer based learning is becoming a practical option for most students.
and with the birth of hackschoolingRather than pursue a straight-run through of high school and college, innovators are piecing together their own custom learning experiences based on a mixture of real world
experiences and personalised modular classes.
there is an emergence of anew wave of genius
Jack Andraka is the sixteen-year-old
discoverer of a testing strip that detects the early signs
of pancreatic cancer.
Taylor Ramon Wilson is an American nuclear scientist. In 2008, at age 14, he became the youngest person in the world to
build a working fusor.
and inspired new thinking
about learning.It is possible to become world-class in just about
anything in six months or less. Armed with the right framework,
you can seemingly performmiracles, whether with a language, swimming or anything else in between.
Tim Ferris
That could reignite something from the past.
Leonardo Da Vinci was the son of a nobleman
and a peasant woman and was educated at home. No formal
schooling, the village priest taught him the basics. He was self taught.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. In today’s language Mozart
would be considered a “home-schooled” prodigy.
Challenge modern assumption.
Superstar lawyers, math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience, but they don’t. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky, but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier in the end, is not an outlier at all.
Malcom Gladwell
Judit PolgarIn 1991, Judit Polgar achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to
do so at that time.
Judit was the product of an educational experiment. Her father recruited a wife and picked chess
as a random subject. Her two sisters are also Grandmasters.
What if geniuses were made and not born...
and all was not what it seems?
We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur, but that’s the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?
Malcom Gladwell
Would it not force us to try something bold?
Inspire us to find a way to solve one of humanity's
biggest problems?
What if we could
unlock the genius inside every child?
What is Born Limitless?
The highest impact education space on Earth.
Providing the mindset, skillset and toolset.
To make the impossible possible.
Just one small step!
•To create an initial pioneer program and location for 20 self taught eleven to fourteen-year-olds.
•To invest in them the resources to allow them to achieve their limitless potential.
•The radical re-invention of the upper limit for child education.
What we need to make this happen.
•20 awesome kids!
•A ‘whatever it takes’ approach to funding.
•Partnerships with cutting edge technology firms.
•Access to world changing faculty.
•A management and delivery team.
What is the future of Born Limitless?
•To create a permanent education space that constantly looks to maximise child potential.
•To open source the findings to the remainder of the planet.
•To catalyse a new educational paradigm.
You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is , like a farmer, create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.Sir Ken Robinson
