Elon Musk: Education Spending Is Broken—Admin Costs Soar While Teaching Stagnates

Elon Musk: Administrative expense has gone ballistic, but teaching expense is flat. It doesn't make sense.

“If you look at the expenditures, there's a very big rise in the number of administrators, but not a very big rise in the number of teachers. And so that's really the big factor.

We should have more actual teachers. I believe in paying teachers well, and having a lot of teachers.

But we should say, why do we have so many administrators or non-teachers? Administrative expense has gone ballistic, but teaching expense is more or less flat. It doesn't make sense.”

Town Hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, March 30, 2025