乔布斯的老上司：怎样发现下一个乔布斯

你说辍学的人能在创业领域发挥很大作用。那么你觉得教育应该在商业领域发挥什么样的作用呢？

当前教育的一大问题是它过于落后，和企业界的差距过大。学术圈的根本特性就是它变化缓慢。也就是说它和市场越来越脱节。这就让高等教育变得没用。它缺乏目标。因此，一个充满热情、活力十足的自学者和现实的联系程度以及他的价值都会远远超过一个计算机学博士。如今的教育真丢人。

你的公司BrainRush的业务重点就是教育，对吗？

对。我们争取做到这一点，这样我们就能在许多方面加快人们的学习速度，从而纠正教育出现的问题，同时填补教育的漏洞。在我们的内部测试中，我们已经能证明学习速度可以提高10倍，这一点真的很了不起。

你们具体是怎么做的呢？

我们的思路是用一个软件来掌握时间，同时遵循一些确实非常有效的原则。

据我所知，它的教育方式就是游戏，对吧？

本质上是一些游戏规则，游戏并不多。老师们可以把他们的授课内容放到我们制作的模板里，然后使用加速功能。我们的工作立足于非常严肃的脑科学。

是什么让你对建立这样一家公司感兴趣的呢？

我知道人们能在游戏中学到多少东西。我有八个孩子，所以作为教育消费者我一直都没有离开过教育领域。我知道而且也感觉到，如果我们对隐藏在教与学背后的脑科学再多一点点了解的话，情况就能得到极大的改善。可惜的是，教育界仍紧抱着19世纪的制度不放，我觉得这样不对。

养活八个孩子是什么感觉？

很高兴。这是我这辈子做过的最棒的事。

如果你不介意的话，能问一下你现在多大了吗？

我刚刚70岁。嗯，听上去很老了，但我观察世界的双眼仍然只有14岁。

听起来你好像一直都非常非常忙。

我不知道工作和娱乐有什么区别，所以，我也不知道退休为何物。（财富中文网）

译者：Charlie    

You talk about how dropouts can play a big role in entrepreneurship. What role do you think education should play in business?

One of the big problems with education today is it's too much of a trailer; it's too far behind where industry is. The very nature of academia is it's slow to change. That means it's falling further and further away from the marketplace. So the relevance of a higher education is not useful. It's not targeted. So a passionate, energetic person who is on a self-training path is going to be much more current and much more valuable than somebody who has a Ph.D. in computer science. And shame on the schools.

Your company BrainRush is educationally focused, isn't it?

It is. We're trying to make it so we can fix and plug a lot of the holes in education by accelerating a lot of the aspects of what people learn. In our alpha test, we've been able to prove 10x acceleration, and that's really remarkable.

How does it work exactly?

The idea is that you have a piece of software that does timing and follows some principles that are really, really powerful.

From what I understand, it's education taught through games?

Some game principles, not so much games, per se. We're creating these templates where teachers can put their lessons into it and get this acceleration factor. And it's based on some very serious brain science.

What got you interested in developing a business around that?

I've noticed how much people can learn from game play. And I've got eight kids, so I've been in the education world as a consumer of education. And I've been understanding and feeling how much better we could be doing if we just took a little more understanding of the brain science behind schooling and learning. Unfortunately, schools are mired in the metrics of the 1800s, and I think that's wrong.

What has it been like raising eight kids?

Delightful. It's the best thing I could have ever done with my life.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you now?

I just turned 70. Boy, that sounds old. I'm still looking out at the world through eyes of a 14-year-old.

Well it sounds like you're staying very, very busy.

I can't tell the difference between work and play, so, retiring, I don't know what that would be.