## The Identified Problem The Chinese education fails to - Cultivate thinking (思想) abilities - Develop humanistic traits & soft power like empathy and trust ## A Proven Solution & Method a high-value niche market: he successfully attracts highly-educated parents who recognize the long-term value of this "thinking" education, even without immediate test-score benefits. ## Inspirations for My Project 1. **Define Your Value:** supplement not alternative 2. **Prioritize In-person Mentorship:** Authentic engagement is key. 3. **Target High-end Customers:** parents and students already questioning the efficacy of the current system. These early adopters will become your most powerful advocates. 4. **Build on Trust:** Start small, deliver transformative results, and let word-of-mouth from a core community drive growth. Spread by trust over conventional marketing. --- The deepest problem of education is the absence of thinking — and the destruction of natural logic and intrinsic motivation by authority-driven, obedience-based systems. The way forward is to create alternative micro-environments that awaken these capacities, in ways that are low-cost, flexible, and outside mainstream control — and to start with those most ready to embrace it. --- Build spaces outside the traditional school schedule Many students in China (and elsewhere) have no time — 6am to 10pm study schedules. You may need to cater to: - “Escaped” students (like you) who are already abroad. - Short “micro-dose” interventions (1 hr/week) that plant thinking-seeds even within the time-poor mainstream kids. --- [[Project Awaken]] [[1 PROJECT/Learning Architect]]