Making quality education accessible to everyone

On a mission to give every child a chance to learn in a way that’s personal, inspiring, and actually works.

Here I am again, pen in hand, staring at a blank piece of paper. What will I build next? How will I leave a positive impact on this planet? How can I push myself to achieve even more than the previous venture? What can I do that genuinely needs to be done?

Somehow, whether by destiny or fate, I find myself drawn once again to a common theme: leveraging software to make the world fairer, to give everyone equal opportunity to succeed – not just the ones who can afford it.

This time, my target is education.

I have witnessed first-hand the growing divide in the quality and delivery of education. The ones with money can afford to send their children to private schools, pay for tuition, and provide them experiences that others can only dream about. As for the rest, they are playing a lottery with much higher odds against them – left to the declining public education system that struggles to appropriately fund schools and teachers, giving tomorrow’s adults that one extra challenge in life.

I don’t believe that quality education is something that only the fortunate should be able to afford.

But it’s not just the money that’s the issue, it’s the system – the way we teach has also fallen behind. Although technology has made significant leaps and bounds, the fundamental structure of teaching and classrooms has mostly remained the same. Schools are driven by curriculums, national tests, and conformity.

The teacher, like a conductor in an orchestra, stands in front guiding their pupils to the same pace, same tune, and song. If you play too slow, you must work harder to catch up to the rest, and if you play too fast – you must learn to slow down and be patient.

Somehow, the current state of education believes that we are all the same - drones made in a factory, each with the same operating system, built to the same specification.

But this is not who we are. We are human. We have individual thoughts, individual desires and passions, and our own unique lens on the world.

An effective education system would see this, and ensure that learning is uniquely adapted to each individual – one that can understand the individual’s state of learning and dynamically adjust their path to what will be most effective for them. A system that recognises the unique needs of the individual and is able to guide them at their own pace.

We call this personalised learning.

It’s with these primary objectives – making quality education accessible to everyone and ensuring that education is tailored to the individual – that I have decided to dedicate the next chapter of my life to building a business that is able to accomplish these goals.

It’s called Brainiac.