Most students graduate knowing how to pass tests. Fewer leave knowing how to solve real problems.

School teaches facts, formulas, and fixed routines. But it rarely shows you how to figure things out when there’s no clear answer. It rewards compliance more than curiosity. And it often skips the skills that matter most: asking better questions, managing your own time, working through confusion, and building something that didn’t exist before.

Those are the muscles that make you good at anything.

At Pebble, we’ve focused on giving students the space to practice those skills. In clubs, they lead meetings and shape their learning around what they care about. In hackathons, they learn by doing—researching real-world problems, building prototypes, presenting ideas. In our courses, we design for clarity, but we don’t hand-hold. Students choose their pace and explore in the order that makes sense to them.

That’s what education should be: a system that helps you learn how to learn.

We’re not trying to replace school. We’re trying to fill the parts it leaves out. Things like:

• Taking initiative instead of waiting for permission
• Testing ideas early instead of chasing perfect answers
• Learning because you’re curious, not because you’re told to

Those aren’t soft skills. They’re core skills. And we’ve seen what happens when students get to build them. They’re more confident. They move faster. They own their progress.

That’s the gap we’re closing.

— Arnav Bonigala