Nilson Onel

We’re launching @classquake Every city is already full of people with something real to teach. Veterans. Chefs. Mechanics. Artists. Founders. Parents. Historians. Neighbors. People who’ve actually lived. Classquake is a marketplace for in-person learning experiences where one person hosts a group and shares what they know face-to-face. In living rooms. Garages. Rooftops. Parks. Cafés. Studios. Not one-on-one. Not Zoom. Not another online course. Just real people gathering in the same room to learn something worth knowing. Your city is your school. Stay curious.

@rirokpik Time to take matter into our own hands and just ditch the system altogether. We can just teach each other. @classquake is inevitable.

Education has really radicalized me I don't wanna lie. Knowing stuff has made me deeply angry about the world. If you're not angry, you literally just don't know enough.

If learning feels dead, maybe the system is.

@FixingEducation What if administrators were not needed at all? The time has come to go fully decentralized. @classquake is here to stay.

The farther administrators are from the daily reality of students and teachers, the more harmful than helpful they become.

Exactly. Now imagine that idea nationwide. Hundreds of tiny learning experiences happening everywhere: a teacher hosting 10 kids in a living room a builder teaching in a garage a writer teaching at a café a gardener teaching in a backyard a retired pilot teaching decision-making a math genius teaching small groups after school Hosts get paid directly. Families get options. Kids get real humans, real skills, real attention. Every city could be full of microschools, mini-classes, workshops, and learning rooms. The money should follow the learner. The opportunity should go to the people actually teaching. This is @classquake

The real issue is trust. A school system that treats parents like obstacles instead of partners should not be shocked when parents start looking for exits. People don’t pull their kids out because everything is fine. They pull them out when the institution forgets who the children belong to.

Public schools in this country: Can’t teach the Bible. Can’t mention God. Can’t post the Ten Commandments. But can show 8 year olds books about gender transitions without telling parents. And they wonder why homeschooling is at an all time high.

Every city is full of people who know things schools never taught you. The problem is they’re invisible. Classquake is building the layer that makes them findable, bookable, and real. Small groups. Real rooms. Human knowledge. Shared face-to-face. Your city is your school.

@ClownWorld We need to ditch the system and start teaching each other. We need @classquake

Nobody is born hating America. Nobody is born thinking there are 72 genders. Nobody is born wanting the government to run their grocery store. This stuff is taught. And someone is doing the teaching. Pay attention to what’s in your kids’ schools.

This is the thing people overcomplicate. A kid surrounded by books, adults who read, and real conversations already has a massive advantage. Language is absorbed before it’s “taught.” Same with taste. Curiosity. Attention. Judgment. You don’t need a 47-slide literacy framework to make a child literate. You need books in the house and adults who make reading feel normal, alive, and worth doing.

Reading books (and being read to) is the number one way to develop good language skills. No amount of grammar courses, vocabulary workbooks, or English classes can compensate for a lack of reading. In our homeschool, each child reads (and hears) multiple books every year. Fiction, non-fiction, numerous authors, multiple styles…this is what develops vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and writing. Sadly, government schools are overwhelmingly resorting to “selected text” instead of whole books, with many kids graduating without having read a single book in high school. You can homeschool your kids with just a big stack of library books and they will far exceed their government school peers in multiple ways.

@CreditFlex Can you expand a little bit on the short-term continuity part?

@nilson_onel Very cool. I'm more on the meta-platform level; getting teens to the learning they need. One thing: we kind of need at least short-term continuity. So, maybe 10 hours. Keep me in mind as you grow!

Turn your living room into a learning hub and teach groups of people in your city.

@CreditFlex Of course! That’s the idea: turn your space -any space- into a learning hub. What would you teach? It could a talk about a topic you’re passionate about or a hands-on class.

@nilson_onel How about your workshop?

@hthieblot That’s me

Imagine looking back and realizing you were crazy enough to quit your job, burn through your savings, max out your cards, lose sleep for years, and ignore everyone who said it would never work… …and somehow you were right.

@pmarca Let’s disrupt education with @classquake

Harness Hyper War

@ben_m_somers Let’s get them hosting on @classquake

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@fathersreforged Which is why I’m building a new one. Space the matrix!

Public school is the greatest threat our children will face. It teaches our boys to hate masculinity and our girls to hate femininity.

Exactly. The failing system wants audit authority over the families escaping it. “Your kids must meet our standards.” Cool. Do yours? Because if the public system can graduate kids who can’t read, write, calculate, or think clearly, maybe it should spend less time inspecting homeschoolers and more time looking in the mirror.

The government wants to check up on homeschool kids to see if they are meeting state standards while at the same time passing and graduating kids who don’t meet state standards. You can’t make this up!

@HannahWardEdu You should be hosting learning experiences on @classquake

I have no idea where the "homeschooled kids can't get into college" rumor started. That's just simply never the case.

This should be every startup’s founder’s favorite song

@CreditFlex @PrinceValian8t @ImColbyLyons You should host learning experiences on @classquake

@PrinceValian8t @nilson_onel @ImColbyLyons Learning is a change in long term memory.

I think it's interesting when people tell homeschoolers they should just try to "change their school." Personally I want something completely different for my kids, and there is no way that the public school system is going to change enough to provide it.

In my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever made.