Tim Higgins:

The first prin­ci­ples process in­volves en­vi­sion­ing what ul­ti­mate suc­cess looks like and then be­ing open to any path that leads there. Even some­thing so in­grained in tra­di­tional school­ing, such as ac­cred­i­ta­tion, showed how Musk’s mind ap­plied first prin­ci­ples rea­son­ing in de­ci­sion mak­ing, rais­ing very sim­ple ques­tions: “What’s ac­cred­i­ta­tion? Why does it ex­ist? What’s it for? What’s the cost? What’s the op­por­tu­nity cost of do­ing that?”

Meanwhile, Madison largely continues with a static k-12 system. This despite long term, disastrous reading results.