Our current education system was designed in the industrial revolution to prepare people for factory work. The world has changed a lot since then - and the time has come to rethink education from the bottom to the top.
At School of Everything, we believe that learning is personal, and starts not with what you 'should' learn but with what you're interested in. So we're building a tool to help anyone in the world learn everything, and teach anything, how and when suits them - by putting people in touch with each other, not with institutions.
This isn't about e-learning. The internet is full of information, but some things are best learned with the help of a teacher, or with support from other people learning with you. We want to help learners design their own education and make use of whatever's on offer out there to help them learn.
Anyone can be a teacher, and we don't mind whether you teach for money or simply for the love of a subject - we think the world should be full of people sharing what they're passionate about.
Millions of people already make a living as self-employed teachers, but that's just the start: think of all the underused skills that exist in any neighbourhood. From active retired people, to teenage whizz-kids, to hobbyists in their garden sheds, there are people everywhere who could gain satisfaction, confidence - and maybe even a new career - from passing on what they know.
Our goal is to do for education what YouTube has done for television, or what eBay did for retail: to open up a huge and fertile space between the professional and the amateur. A space where people teach what they know and learn what they don't.
It's this vision of a bottom-up learning system that gets us excited. We're still pretty new, but we're growing quickly – and we've got big plans.