Jeff Bezos v. Education

On June 15 2017 Jeff Bezos twitted his request for ideas:

 

(https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/what-should-i-do-with-my-billions-jeff-bezos-asks-twitter-users-1.3122103

or

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-22/amazon-s-bezos-disrupts-another-frontier-with-just-one-tweet

or

https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/875418348598603776).

 

 

I quickly sent my response: http://gomars.xyz/jb.html

 

I offered several project - all in education (the projects offered there later were migrated to my main blog: www.Cognisity.How).

 

One project was designated specifically to opening a school – a special kind of school: http://www.teachology.xyz/chs.htm.

 

Fearing that Mr. Bezos does not have time to read, some time later, on may 12. 2018, I made a short video: https://youtu.be/_uMIk7MN4ME

 

Of course, I never had any feedback from Mr. Bezos, or his associates.

 

But on September 23, 2020, the press reported that Mr. Bezos finally turned his head toward education - he opened a pre-school: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/business/jeff-bezos-tuition-free-preschool-bezos-academy/index.html.

 

 

That is yet way far away from what he could have done, but it is the step in the right direction – a small step for a man, but a reeeeeally small step for the richest guy on the planet.

 

BTW, Mr. Bezos, all my projects remain heavily actual/current/present/contemporary – in case you are interested in making real difference in education.

Other oligarchs are also welcome:

 

Dr. Valentin Voroshilov

 

P.S. another post about Bezos – not related to education: http://www.cognisity.how/2018/05/JBezos.html

 P.P.S. My hope is that Jeff Bezos may be expecting one more child, and he wants to follow his/her steps through the years of schooling. If that is a case, at the minimum he would collect - eventually - some useful data on learning and teaching.