I want to build a school.
Like a giant monastery. The way universities were intended.
I think that’s my life’s aspiration
It will be named,
“The Academy”
And it will have two branches
“The Lyceum”
and
“The Gymnasium “
A throwback to the first schools of philosophy, the first academic institutions of higher learning, and the emphasis on mind AND body
It will not have grades
It will be a school of purely exercise
Mental and physical exercise
Grades will be on effort
Not outcome
Tests will evaluate the ability to generate questions to problems, not answers
Class will have no curriculum.
It will only be subjects. Objects of observation. General domains of perception.
There will be no classrooms.
No class.
There will be no class schedule.
Everyone is a student and a teacher.
Dialog is ongoing throughout the day and night.
Learning is all the time.
Sometimes there will be lots of meetings for dialogue, all day day days.
Other times individuals cloister in self reflective study, in solitude, for days or weeks if necessary.
Regrouping for continuing dialog is organic.
Everything is optional
Everyone must work to run the school.
Chores are rotated. Cooking cleaning laundry.
That’s the price for attendance
No internet.
Only a local area network.
The school’s values will be Virtue Ethics.
It will be a purely philosophical school.
William Dare 