Elon Musk’s private school at SpaceX

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In a corner of SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, a small, secretive group called Ad Astra is hard at work. These are not the company’s usual rocket scientists. At the direction of Elon Musk, they are tackling ambitious projects involving flamethrowers, robots, nuclear politics, and defeating evil AIs.

 

Those at Ad Astra still find time for a quick game of dodgeball at lunch, however, because the average age within this group is just 10 years old.

Source: First space, then auto—now Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education | Ars Technica

Interesting view of education by Musk. The school sounds like it is very student focused, with a low teacher to student ration. I disagree with the lack of music and language.

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