Students

“UCLA psychologists tested exactly that on students the week before a midterm. One group visualized the outcome, so getting that A, right? The other visualized the process, when they would study, where they would sit, which chapters, and then a control group ba…”

“In an academic context, there are real costs to being in the bottom third of your class. There's a huge amount of research that just says, when you're in the bottom third, or the bottom quarter, whatever, it's psychologically Quite debilitating. And if you're …”

“When you allow a student to get a little ahead of their class, two things happen. One, when they see it in class, they're like, oh, I've seen this before, so they, it builds a little bit of cushion, and it also builds confidence.”

“There's this weird path where students are coming out and they're more powerful and capable than ever because they use AI by default. And so they can get more output Than somebody who's maybe been in their career, 1520 years.”

“The name of our product is called Time Back. Time Back. Give kids their time back. That's cool. And that is by far the most motivation.”

“If you deploy ChatGPT to students, 90% of them use it to cheat.”

“If you can teach that to students, it's worth more than most of the entire curriculums of subjects.”

“We spend plenty of money where for a hundred dollars or 400 dollars, we could literally change how everybody sees both their capability and how they see themselves.”

“Kids coming out of school today that are fearless in the questions they ask and the follow-ups and their ability to prompt, they have more skill than everybody in every major corporation with under a thousand employees.”

“They're quite literally prohibiting the students from learning the tools that they are going to need in the future.”

“Today, about 20% of students get internships, and that's because internships are incredibly expensive.”

“And the problem is that for the students, they'll make a million dollars less over a lifetime of hard work.”

“The studies show it's anywhere from 60 to 80% of students Have adopted generative AI, and not just in the classroom.”

“What we heard over and over again from educators was that the students are two years behind where they should be once schools opened. And it's not just two years behind academically. It's two years behind socially. It's two years behind emotionally and their a…”

“We believe students are experiencing chatbot overload, and they often don't even know what to ask a chatbot, so we really tried to create chunked out tools that help them with specific parts of the process as they need them”

“If you want to test how students write essays, you probably have to take away the internet and just have them do some handwritten essays sometimes if that's still what you want to test for.”

“I would say like the number one use case is actually a lot of students taking their study materials and wanting to turn it into an audio guide.”

“I do think a lot of the students got ripped off. And so I think there should be some kind of broad student debt forgiveness at this point.”

“Just for students, the Canadian government's gives 3.2 billion dollars a year for grants.”

“There's actually a whole lot of people involved in these things that are not actually students. And I think that really confuses things and almost makes these things like deep fake protests.”

“Although I'll never hire any of them.”

“It turns out students who used iPads and digital media many times a day, they show the exact signs of ADHD, inattention and hyperactivity and impulsivity.”

“You got to get the main thing done, and anything that compromises a prime directive has got to go and be subordinated, and I think that, you know, in the universities, partly because of just sheer size of them, you know, you have people who have no concern abo…”

“At many of the kind of elite institutions, the number of administrators outnumbers the number of students.”

“Every great teacher knows that it's not access to knowledge that kids are missing. It's access to experiences, confidence, mindset, and belief in themselves, and until AI can solve that more human problem. I just don't think you're going to see the kind of imp…”

“If you look at the four-year graduation rate, it's 45%. It's basically half of all students will transfer or drop out from the first school that they attend.”

“The moment we realized that we can charge universities some marketing fee, we dropped a hundred percent of our cost to our students.”

“Just not having as much stuff to do wound up making students feel less FOMO, less anxious, less time famished.”

“The big mistake that my students are making is they're a little too risk-averse.”

“If you bring them in, and allow them to come up with some of the rules of how we're going to be doing this, then you don't have to enforce it. Because they came up with the rules.”

“You know, and so if there's no penalty for revision, kids have no problem doing it again. The reason they don't want to do it again is if they get a D and they're like, oh my God, she's never going to change my grade. You know, why am I going to ever do it aga…”

“We have a 130 now, ah, with about seven and a half thousand students.”

“They say reflects a new moral culture in which you achieve status, not by being strong, not by being beautiful, not by being smart. You achieve status by being, by emphasizing how much you've been victimized, and if you haven't been victimized, then you achiev…”

“Students weren't really buying computers at the time, and most of the students that I knew, they weren't really interested in computers at the time. That sounds like crazy right now, but this is back in 1983, 1984. There weren't very many people that had perso…”

“There are students leave about 2.9 billion dollars in free financial aid on the table every year because the process is frankly just so shitty.”

“We've had roughly four million students on the platform in the past year and a half.”