Public education in America consists generally of under-paid, over-worked teachers who are tasked with force-feeding students overwhelming amounts of information, perfectly regurgitated onto multiple-choice exams. State exams, for their part, are written by people who understand neither content nor students. Over the years, we have successfully created an education system that stifles creativity, stymies logical reasoning and stunts learning. This talk will be about hacking education as we hack anything else-breaking the existing system, fixing broken parts (tests, outdated formulas, teacher-centric classrooms), reconstructing the pieces conducive to learning (inquiry, manipulatives, the outdoors, the real world, use of tools), and finding an education that works for us, rather than against us. It will discuss multiple intelligences, why China always beats us in math (and it's not because Chinese parents are superior), who gets blamed for education, and other topics.