Apple is looking the other way.
More than 40 million Americans carry student loan debt totaling around $1.8 trillion. A lot of people leave school owing tens of thousands of dollars for access to information that AI now provides free. That's a system whose core product just became free.
Education was an information business. It isn't anymore.
AI can explain gravity. It can walk you through photosynthesis. What it can't do is make concepts feel physical or real. That's Vision Pro's territory. Instead of reading or watching, you move through real-world environments and interact with concepts in a way that feels closer to doing than learning about doing.
Apple knows what Vision Pro can do. It has decided schools aren't the market.
The problem isn't the technology. Vision Pro costs $3,499. Apple just launched a $499 laptop specifically to take education market share from Chromebooks and offers no equivalent discount for Vision Pro. Schools that want one are pointed toward innovation grants.
Apple knows how to sell to schools. It did it with the eMac, the iMac, the MacBook Neo. With Vision Pro it's chosen not to. That's not a hardware problem. It's a decision.