Qi Lu: Education has barely changed in millennia despite technology
Qi Lu · Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies · Y Combinator · Jan 16, 2019 · at 49:16
Qi Lu (CEO of YC China) discusses the historical lack of technological disruption in education with VIPKID CEO Cindy Mi.
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“Having said that, also sort of observed education for the past couple of thousand years hasn't really changed that much. Technology hasn't really make a massive, Ah, uplift or transformation yet.”
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