Education

We want to open a school. Or maybe a network of schools. We don't really know the best way yet, but we sense it has something to do with self-direction, nature, community, and treating children as full human beings.

Most of us spent years in institutions that taught us to sit still, memorize, and comply. Some of us thrived anyway. Many didn't. Almost all of us lost something along the way — curiosity, confidence, the sense that learning is something we do because we're alive, not because we're told to.

We're not claiming to have answers. We're gathering questions, and people who care about those questions. What would school look like if children were respected and listened to? If adults were learners too? If the whole thing happened on a farm, or in a barn, or by a river?

This is an invitation to think together.