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