SPACEX FOUNDER ELON MUSK OPENS EXPERIMENTAL PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tech Billionaire Elon Musk,has opened an experimental primary school in a California mansion he bought. The school called Adstral which means "to the stars"in Latin was set up because he was dissatisfied with the traditional school system based on grades. The school has 20 students, mainly his and employees of Spacex. He pulled his kids out of Mirman school, a very exclusive school for gifted children in Los Angeles which requires them to pass an IQ test. He explained that children had different capabilities at different times, some love maths, others English, music etc.


"It makes more sense to cater the education to match their aptitudes and abilities. It's important to teach problem solving – or teach to the problem, not to the tools."
He explained that the traditional approach to learning about engines would be to have specific courses about the tools used, such as having a course about screwdrivers and wrenches, but Musk said that this was a very difficult way to explain the concepts.
To him, children should be taught to reverse-engineer the engine and then learn directly which tools were needed to take it apart, such as a screwdriver. Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX, Paypal and Telsa Motors.