Reimagining education from the inside out

The world is changing rapidly. These are unprecedented times. They demand curiosity, a suspension of what is known, creativity, authenticity, and responsibility. That is the only lasting response. Education can evoke this response.

A reimagined education has the power to transform the very ways in which we relate, feel, think, understand, respond and act. “Addressing education’s challenges and shortcomings will require not tinkering around the margins but rapid, nonlinear progress, which is what the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution calls leapfrogging.”

Education is part science, part method, and entirely human. It is an art — an art born from the hearts and minds of educators and students it brings forth that which lies within. It is not done to a learner. Instead, it is a process of discovery, led by the student, guided by the educator. It is integrally equitable because it empowers students, and their educators to drive it, to make it happen . It is an education for the people, by the people.

An equitable youth-led education is a critical way to reimagine education.