Udacity: Reinventing Education - Seeker Blog

High on our list of role models for our grandchildren are Paul Romer and Sebastian Thrun. One of the most-coveted prizes for a professor is tenure at Stanford University. Because they are so committed to their respective social ventures, both Romer and Thrun resigned their Stanford tenure. That defines a very high mark for passion! We have been writing about Paul Romer’s Charter Cities and his New Growth Theory for some time. Meanwhile we have been following Sebastian Thrun mainly in the context of the Google and Stanford self-driving-car programs. This post is about innovation in education.