Every child deserves a great education.

Human potential is everywhere. Great education is not.

Our capacity to learn is essential to our humanity. It is how each of us became who we are, how we will become who we hope to be, and how each generation hands on more than it received.

Yet a child’s access to education has always depended on circumstance: where they live, what their family can afford, and whether the teachers they encounter have time to understand how they think.

What works is well known: one student, one teacher. Someone who sees what a child understands, where they are struggling, and what they might be capable of next. It is just that we have never been able to give it to everyone.

Now we can. Our children are entering a world remade, while much teaching and schooling has failed to catch up. Used well, technology can give every child the education that has always belonged to a few, and it can do so in pursuit of a greater human flourishing.

So we state plainly what we believe:

• We believe one-to-one instruction is the best form of teaching. It is how humankind has learnt for most of our history; it satisfies our biological need for interpersonal learning; and it should be accessible to everyone.
  
  

• We believe education should be more human, not less. Those around a student should have more time to encourage, challenge, guide and care, and technology’s job is to enable that. Life’s great loves and enthusiasms are as unlikely to be found behind a screen as behind a desk, and education should make more room for the relationships and experiences that shape who a child becomes.
  
  

• We believe better education is critical for a better society. Every generation inherits challenges the last could not solve. Children need as much opportunity to understand themselves, others and the world around them as they do to master a curriculum. Few problems matter more: what society becomes depends on what the next generation can understand, create and become.

And so we commit ourselves to building a world in which our children can learn more than we have, and faster, and go on to become better people, better companions to one another and better stewards of this earth than we.