"To Jack Schneider, director of the Center for Education Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, educational projects backed by tech elites can smack of hubris. "I don't doubt that there's a sincere charitable impulse for lots of these folks," Schneider said. "But then there's another impulse, which is to believe not only that you are a visionary in terms of your ability to redesign systems and structures, but that you also have a unique insight into human nature and the way that people should be leading their lives.""