Originally published in DailyWealth on July 14, 2025.
In 1856, a Wisconsin teacher named Margarethe Schurz opened a school built around play instead of memorization. It is widely credited as the first kindergarten in America.
Her idea matters again. As AI makes knowledge cheap, the human skills machines can't teach, like social and emotional intelligence, command a premium. That creates a clear divide between the education businesses that will thrive and the ones that won't.