Mike Partners<\/a>, CEO of Visionary School, to hear why he thinks the education system hasn\u2019t caught up with that reality, and what he\u2019s doing about it.<\/p>\nLet\u2019s start with the big picture. How serious is the threat that AI poses to the workforce right now?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a future problem. It\u2019s happening right now. We\u2019re watching entire job categories get compressed or eliminated in real time. Customer service, data entry, paralegal work, basic accounting, logistics coordination. These are fields that employed millions of people, and AI is doing significant portions of that work today. It\u2019s only going to accelerate from here.\u201d<\/p>\n
And you think traditional education has failed to acknowledge that?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cYeah, pretty much. The system was built to produce employees. The whole structure of it: sit in rows, follow instructions, pass tests, get certified, go fill a role. But the demand for that kind of worker is shrinking faster than the education sector wants to admit. We\u2019re charging people tens of thousands of dollars to train them for positions that AI is already doing. And nobody wants to say it out loud.\u201d<\/p>\n
So what\u2019s the alternative? What is Visionary School actually building?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re building something that works like Netflix, but for entrepreneurship education. On-demand, subscription-based content that teaches people how to actually build something: how to identify a market, validate an idea, build a brand, manage money, sell, scale. No lectures on a fixed schedule. No student debt. Just practical knowledge you can get into whenever you\u2019re ready.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why entrepreneurship specifically? Why not just teach people new technical skills to compete alongside AI?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cBecause the technical skills will also get automated. You can retrain someone to code today, and in five years AI will write better code faster than they can. What AI can\u2019t replicate is the drive to create something from nothing, to take a risk on your own idea, to build a relationship, to figure out a problem nobody\u2019s handed you a spec for. That\u2019s entrepreneurship. That\u2019s what\u2019s left when you strip away everything that can be automated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Who is Visionary School designed for?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cAnyone who\u2019s ever felt like the traditional path wasn\u2019t built for them, or who\u2019s realized it\u2019s stopped working. That could be a 22-year-old who just graduated and can\u2019t find work in their field. It could be a 45-year-old whose job just got automated away. It could be someone who never went to university and always felt locked out because of it. We want this to be something anyone can get into, not just people who can already afford to take risks.\u201d<\/p>\n
What would you say to someone skeptical of this, someone who still thinks traditional education has value?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m not against education. I\u2019m against pretending nothing has changed. There are fields where formal training is genuinely necessary: medicine, engineering, law. But for a large chunk of the workforce, a degree has become a very expensive piece of paper. The world is moving faster than any accreditation committee can keep up with. We built Visionary School to move at the pace of the market instead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Visionary School is set to launch with a growing library of entrepreneurship content, with new material added regularly. Mike Partners says pricing will be kept low by design. The goal, he says, is to make it something anyone can walk into, not just people who already have a financial cushion to fall back on.<\/p>\n
His closing thought is simple: \u201cStop training people to be replaced. Start teaching them to build.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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