Essays on learning and humanity
Longer reflections by the chief author. The first is the founding essay; each that follows takes one value of the manifesto and asks what it demands of us.
Education and Respect for Women: The Pillars of Humanity’s Future
Two forces that, interwoven, create a society capable of innovation, empathy and resilience.
Read the essayFeedforward: Why the Future of Learning Looks Ahead
A mark tells a child where she has been. A hint tells her where she can go. On the quiet power of looking forward.
Feedforward over feedbackRead the essayCollaboration over Competition: Raising Learners Who Lift Each Other
Rankings teach children to see each other as obstacles. Shared problems teach them to see each other as allies. The world needs the second lesson.
Healthy collaboration over unhealthy competitionRead the essayThe Teacher as Gardener: Adaptive Learning in a Changing Century
A factory produces identical parts. A garden grows living things, each in its own season. Which one should a school resemble?
Adaptive learning approaches over rigid traditional approachesRead the essayHuman Intelligence First: Education in the Age of AI
Machines can now write, draw and answer. The question for education is no longer what machines can do, but what we must never stop doing ourselves.
Agile learning culture over comprehensive contentRead the essay