Elon Musk opens own school

Elon Musk's company, SpaceX, launches its fourth mission to the International Space Station on April 8, 2016. Picture: AFP Photo/Robyn Beck

Elon Musk's company, SpaceX, launches its fourth mission to the International Space Station on April 8, 2016. Picture: AFP Photo/Robyn Beck

Published May 25, 2015

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Entrepreneur Elon Musk has added school founder to his list of achievements.

In a recent interview on Beijing Television, the billionaire founder of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX revealed that he opened a school called Ad Astra last year for his five children.

In his view, regular school wasn’t educating his children the way he thought it should so he hired a teacher and founded Ad Astra, an elementary school attended mostly by SpaceX employees’ families.

The school does not have a grade structure and encourages learning through problem solving.

Musk, 43, matriculated at Pretoria Boys High but left South Africa shortly after to study in the US.

A new biography called Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance has been released in the US.

Although his father, Errol, recently gave some interviews in South Africa, Musk is believed to have had a hard childhood after his parents divorced, and was bullied at school. – Staff Reporter

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