As a few words of introduction, I’ll start the blog off with a post on my two main motivations.

1. I want to start a primary/secondary (k-12) school that is focused on graduating students from high school as quickly as possible.

And, I really do mean as quickly as possible.

First, I think that high school graduation should necessarily mean that the student has gained mastery over some specific body of knowledge. Any knowledge mastered on top of that specific body can be noted on the diploma or somehow, but the requirements for graduation need to be more closely tied to (1) a more specific and clearly laid out body of knowledge and (2) actual mastery by a clear metric.

With such a requirement for graduation, it becomes clear that a good school would have its students ready for graduation more quickly than a worse school.

If this body of knowledge is something that we want to impart to students, then it makes sense to me that we want to get them this knowledge as quickly as possible so that the students can then go on to learn more in post-secondary schools, gain employment or start businesses, and more fully participate in civic and other institutions.

If we tried to teach students quickly: We could counteract the "burden of knowledge"; We’d see ambitious students having more time in early life to fulfill their ambitions such that they were more likely to reach their goals; We could see a decrease in the gender gap in some fields; We could end up seeing more economic risk taking as young people may have less risk of failure and more time to risk failing.

But most of all, if schools focused on teaching knowledge quickly, then their focus would be on helping students reach their potential. Every year that you can speed up education is one more year of extra education that could be achieved, or a year of research that could be done, or a year of hard work spent to support a family.

2. I would like to improve my writing skills.