I am not sure how to bring elite schools to areas where the density of talent per square mile is low. I mean, mathematically, if you need 500 students per school, and you want to make a school for one-in-hundred talent, you can at most have one such school per 50 000 kids of school age—and that’s optimistically assuming that all potential candidates will want to join your school; otherwise you need to add another factor of 10 or 100.
Perhaps one day this objection will become moot if we somehow switch to fully online education or AI tutors.
An alternative is that instead of building an online school you only make an online club, for example a mathematical club for children gifted in math. A boring school (or homeschooling) in the morning, remote elite education in the afternoon.
Fair points.
I am not sure how to bring elite schools to areas where the density of talent per square mile is low. I mean, mathematically, if you need 500 students per school, and you want to make a school for one-in-hundred talent, you can at most have one such school per 50 000 kids of school age—and that’s optimistically assuming that all potential candidates will want to join your school; otherwise you need to add another factor of 10 or 100.
Perhaps one day this objection will become moot if we somehow switch to fully online education or AI tutors.
An alternative is that instead of building an online school you only make an online club, for example a mathematical club for children gifted in math. A boring school (or homeschooling) in the morning, remote elite education in the afternoon.