1. Unlocking the genius inside every child

2. We teach and test things that most
students have no interest in and will
never need together with facts that
they can Google and forget as soon
as the test is over.
The Week Magazine
There is a huge problem.

3. A really
huge problem.
The troubling fact
is that our current
system of testing and
grading tends to filter
out the creative, different-
thinking people who are
most likely to make
major contributions
to a field.
Salman Khan

4. It requires a new kind of solution...
Don’t limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore

5. with a new technological possibility.
Time
Change
Technological
Possibility
The Reality Gap
Real Life

6. Now that online learning is
hitting a tipping point
Computer based learning is becoming a practical
option for most students.

7. and with the birth of hackschooling
Rather than pursue a straight-run through of high school and
college, innovators are piecing together their own custom
learning experiences based on a mixture of real world
experiences and personalised modular classes.

8. there is an emergence of a
new wave of genius
Jack Andraka
is the sixteen-year-old
discoverer of a testing strip
that detects the early signs
of pancreatic cancer.
Taylor Ramon Wilson
is an American nuclear scientist.
In 2008, at age 14, he became the
youngest person in the world to
build a working fusor.

9. and inspired
new thinking
about learning.
It is possible to become
world-class in just about
anything in six months or less.
Armed with the right framework,
you can seemingly perform
miracles, whether with a
language, swimming or
anything else in between.
Tim Ferris

10. That could reignite
something from the past.
Leonardo Da Vinci
was the son of a nobleman
and a peasant woman and was
educated at home. No formal
schooling, the village priest taught
him the basics. He was self taught.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
showed prodigious ability
from his earliest childhood.
In today’s language Mozart
would be considered a
“home-schooled” prodigy.

11. Challenge modern assumption.
Superstar lawyers, math whizzes and software
entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie
outside ordinary experience, but they don’t.
They are products of history and community,
of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not
exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in
a web of advantages and inheritances, some
deserved, some not, some earned, some just
plain lucky, but all critical to making them
who they are. The outlier in the end, is not
an outlier at all.
Malcom Gladwell

12. Judit Polgar
In 1991, Judit Polgar achieved
the title of Grandmaster at the
age of 15 years and 4 months,
the youngest person ever to
do so at that time.
Judit was the product of an
educational experiment. Her father
recruited a wife and picked chess
as a random subject. Her two
sisters are also Grandmasters.
What if geniuses
were made and not born...

13. and all was not what it seems?
We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel
that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to
become a fabulously successful entrepreneur, but
that’s the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed
one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time
sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers
had been given the same opportunity, how
many more Microsofts would we have today?
Malcom Gladwell

14. Would it not
force us to try
something bold?

15. Inspire us to find a way
to solve one of humanity's
biggest problems?

16. What if
we could
unlock the
genius inside
every child?

18. What is Born Limitless?
The highest impact
education space on Earth.
Providing the mindset,
skillset and toolset.
To make the impossible possible.

19. Just one small step!
• To create an initial pioneer program
and location for 20 self taught eleven
to fourteen-year-olds.
• To invest in them the resources to allow
them to achieve their limitless potential.
• The radical re-invention of the upper limit
for child education.

20. What we need to make this happen.
• 20 awesome kids!
• A ‘whatever it takes’ approach to funding.
• Partnerships with cutting edge technology firms.
• Access to world changing faculty.
• A management and delivery team.

21. What is the future of Born Limitless?
• To create a permanent education space that
constantly looks to maximise child potential.
• To open source the findings to the remainder
of the planet.
• To catalyse a new educational paradigm.

22. You cannot predict
the outcome of human
development. All you
can do is, like a farmer,
create the conditions
under which it will
begin to flourish.
Sir Ken Robinson

23. If you can contribute in
any way to this project then
getintouch@bornlimitless.com