“The world is changing. It’s looking for people who are creative and entrepreneurial, and that’s not going to happen in a system that tells kids what to do all day,” Samantha [Cook, wife of “lead systems administrator at Pandora”] says. “So how do you do that? Well if the system won’t allow it, as the saying goes: If you want something done right, do it yourself.” […]

“There is a way of thinking within the tech and startup community where you look at the world and go, ‘Is the way we do things now really the best way to do it?’” [app designer Jens Peter] de Pedro says. “If you look at schools with this mentality, really the only possible conclusion is ‘Heck, I could do this better myself out of my garage!’” […]

“We are going direct to learning,” she [Lisa Betts-LaCroix] says. “We don’t need to hold to this old paradigm of top-down, someone tells me what to do.”