Al Fin has been a big proponent about changing the way children and young adults should be educated. This is a good site for a variety of interesting reason, so you should check it out.
After my wife came across a video about the Khan Academy and I viewed it and check out the Khan Academy site, I sent a note to Al Fin about it before I realized there was already a link on the Al Fin site. Regardless, it is worth a few minutes of your time. Here is an example of an individual [Salman Khan] and a corporation [Google's YouTube] working in tandem without any formal association between them to create something of potentially great value and efficiency.
It would be great if other brilliant thinkers [not just brilliant and not just thinkers, but those who can brilliantly make their thoughts understandable] did something similar?