#981 - MacKenzie Price - Alpha School: A New Approach To Education

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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MacKenzie Price is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and co-founder of Alpha Schools. Just how broken is education? For fifty years, lofty promises in education have yielded dismal results. Now, with AI, infinite knowledge at our fingertips, and personalized one-on-one learning, how radically different could the school of the future look? Expect to learn what is fundamentally broken about the current education and school system, what kills motivation to excel in school for kids the most, if the issue with addiction to screen time and technology is to blame for lack of performance, how AI will revolutionize the education sector and which schools are already ahead of the curve, How Alpha school convinces skeptical parents that this radically different system will benefit their child, and much more… Sponsors: See me on tour in America: ⁠⁠https://chriswilliamson.live⁠ See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom Get up to $50 off the RP Hypertrophy App at https://rpstrength.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular Flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Timestamps: (0:00) Why is the School Model Broken? (8:54) Why Has the Education System Resisted Innovation? (11:23) Why We Need to Reinvent Our Education System (18:58) How We Can Reimagine the School Day (25:54) A Day in the Life at Alpha Schools (35:08) Using AI in Education (38:43) The Effectiveness of Using Technology in School (43:29) How Learning is Measured at Alpha Schools (51:20) Criticisms of Alpha Schools (01:02:05) Where Will the Education System Be in 5 Years? (01:06:28) Find Out More About Mackenzie Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's fundamentally broken about the current school model? Oh boy. I don't know how long your
0:05.5	podcast is, but let me tell you the fundamental issue. The teacher in front of the classroom
0:11.1	model of one person trying to educate many kids who are at wildly different levels of
0:19.2	understanding just fundamentally doesn't work. And that would be
0:23.8	the summary. There's a lot of sub points in there. I think the other thing that we really want to
0:29.2	fundamentally change in our culture is the attitude about school. I think people think school is
0:34.4	like spinach. It's good for you, but you kind of just got to get it through
0:40.0	and do that. And what I truly believe is that kids should love school because when kids love
0:46.8	school, it opens up the possibility to, it opens up the possibility to do so many incredible
0:53.9	things.
0:55.0	And that's what we're doing at our schools.
0:57.5	Dig deeper.
0:58.3	What's wrong with the one person lecturing to 2030, 40?
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:04.5	Well, you know, if you want to go back in history, think a thousand years ago when Socrates was tutoring Plato, who tutored Aristotle, who
1:13.6	tutored Alexander the Great, who went on to go take over the known world at the age of 22,
1:19.7	that tutoring system was phenomenal.
1:23.2	But it was reserved for the very, very elite.
1:30.9	And, you know, education was not given to the masses.
1:36.3	You know, fast forward many years to the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution.
1:43.4	We had to figure out a way to educate the masses. How could you get education to as many people as possible?
2:04.5	But there was also another goal in mind at that point. How could you raise up compliant citizens who would listen to instruction and do as they're told so that they could go to work in the factories and make industry work? And so that system of education, a teacher leading a group of students in a classroom, you know, came out in the 1800s. And you think about all of the industry changes
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