00:00So how would you educate your five boys?
00:02Actually, I created a little school.
00:03What kind of school?
00:04Well, it's only got 14 kids now, and it'll have 20 kids in September.
00:08It's called Ad Astra, which means to the stars.
00:11That's maybe a bit different from most other schools.
00:14It's important to teach problem solving, or teach to the problem, not to the tools.
00:19So this would be like, let's say you're trying to teach people about how engines work.
00:23A more traditional approach would be to say,
00:25well, we're going to teach you all about screwdrivers and wrenches,
00:28and you're going to have a course on screwdrivers, a course on wrenches, and all these things,
00:32and this is a very difficult way to do it.
00:34A much better way would be like, here's the engine, now let's take it apart.
00:37How are we going to take it apart?
00:38Oh, you need a screwdriver.
00:40That's what the screwdriver is for.
00:41You need a wrench.
00:41That's what the wrench is for.
00:43And then a very important thing happens, which is that the relevance of the tools becomes apparent.
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