The House of Algorithms

Why HOA?

We want to change the way we educate our children, our youth. We want to relook at what they learn and how. We want to move education away from exams, from certification, from degrees. In short, move away from anything that distracts us from the core of education: learning.

Exams, certification etc create a haze around true acquisition of knowledge. They are impediments to our creativity, to our understanding. But we were stuck with them because there were not too many ways to acquire knowledge.

Universities and Institutes have their place but they do not scale; they are good at creating islands of excellence but they do not offer a means to reach out to the vast majority of the population. Ironically, they lock knowledge inside their gates. And their walls are too high to be scaled by all but a few.

Technology has changed some of that. But technology alone cannot solve the problem. If we can dream of every person on earth having access to clean water, why cannot that person also have access to some useful knowledge?

The internet allows for this democratization of knowledge. Where knowledge is not confined to a small elite group. Where there are no obscure exams and card waving rituals to act as gatekeepers to knowing. Where our children can dream of truly universal access to break this artificial knowledge barrier.

Where anyone with a thirst can know.

This is our vision for the House of Algorithms.