"The Rhodes Scholarship cares a lot about what it calls fighting the world's fight'," says business and education graduate student, Phil Yao. "Essentially, it means addressing some of the thorniest but most important issues that face the world. What they look for in a Rhodes Scholar is someone who has a passion for furiously attacking those problems. I think there's a very natural harmony…between the Rhodes Scholarship and Salzburg Global Seminar." With a background in physics, and experience with India-based education NGO Pratham and in the office of former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, the problem Yao is striving to tackle is the lack of creativity and innovation in K-12 education in the USA. Speaking during the February 2015 program The Neuroscience of Art: What are the Sources of Creativity and Innovation? Yao said: "The best mathematicians and physicists we have are very creative minds as well, but I think that's being lost in the educational system." Yao, who attended the session with fellow Rhodes Scholar Clayton Aldern, believes that creativity can be partly rediscovered through the phenomenon of teacher training through massive open online courses (MOOCs). The subject of his recent dissertation."[Today's] teachers are learning while they're still teaching in the classroom. It's a simultaneous process, and there's a lot of feedback there too," explains Yao. "It's part of a more creative future of learning to teach, and that's going to change how skilled the body of teachers out there in the world will be."