Yang Lingfeng / 杨凌峰

Yang Lingfeng is the co-founder and CEO of Yangcong Xueyuan / 洋葱学园, interviewed in 167: 洋葱学园杨临风：用AI制造捷径，是在杀死真学习 about AI-era education and self-directed learning. The episode’s metadata spells the name as 杨临风, but the transcript body consistently uses 杨凌峰.

Yang’s core argument is that education technology should lower the threshold for real thinking rather than accelerate answer acquisition. He defines Self-Directed Learning through willingness, ability, tools, and belief, and argues that ordinary students often want to learn but have been trained by repeated negative feedback to expect failure.

His AI position is pragmatic rather than model-centric. AI can support planning, contextual explanation, strategy distribution, benchmarked model choice, and classroom question handling, but AI Shortcut Risk grows when AI follows students’ desire for less effort instead of helping them build understanding, confidence, and agency.

Connections

• Yangcong Xueyuan / 洋葱学园 — company he co-founded and leads.
• Learning Experience Design — product and pedagogy discipline he emphasizes.
• AI As Tutor, Learning How To Learn, and Human Judgment Under AI — AI-supported learning boundary.
• Education Technology Fairness — rural access and public-interest mission.