Yang Linfeng

“130 million cumulative registered students (1/3 of all Chinese K-12 students), 4 million registered teachers, 2,000+ deeply served schools annually”

“We can see every second of every video — for example, student pause rate, including dropout rate, rewind rate. Based on these peaks, the system will alert teachers to pay attention.”

“Computer science graduate of Harvard. Started doing rural education charity work in 2010 before founding the company in 2013.”

“Good learning methods can lower the threshold of autonomous learning — it's just that in the overseas environment versus the domestic environment there are some differences. One very important reason is that China's learning content is genuinely harder than overseas content.”

“Duolingo is not deep learning. It is particularly suited to practice like English... Duolingo's learning, we feel, is more biased toward System 1 learning, whereas Onion, including Khan Academy, and in fact most of the K-12 stage subject learning, is biased toward System 2 deep logic chain learning.”

“I think New Oriental is a company that was very content-strength-oriented... very early they realized that classroom atmosphere is a scene worth creating. I think they were also creating experience — just their experience was based on the offline, face-to-face field between people, the teacher's own charisma.”

“A US private school (mentioned in passing) where students only attend formal instruction for 2 hours/day, with AI assistance and heavy active output in the afternoon. Annual tuition: $60,000 USD.”