My Initial Vision 🖼

I would ...

• find an incredible property that has outdoor space, a great location, and buy it
• build a cutting-edge but uniquely local, traditional but futuristic, small building
• write RESOURCEFULLY ADAPT on the walls
• focus on kids PreK-12 to start and remove age-based grade levels
• reset the curriculum to zero and thoughtfully add back the essentials
• replace arbitrary grading scales with verified measures of mastery
• ensure that every individual demonstrates 100% mastery of the truly necessary
• remove all roadblocks to specialization, apprenticeship, and entrepreneurship
• define success as the consistent output of resilient, curious, problem solvers
• recruit the very best tutors - innovative, passionate, excellent people
• keep administration lean and automate when at all possible
• accept students from any walk of life so long as they are eager and ethical
• insist that everyone in the engine has skin in the game
• create a sustainable financial engine
• limit government regulation while still operating legally and ethically
• use technology to amplify learning, resourcefulness, and capability
• elevate the role of in-person connections and communication
• rapidly iterate using rapid feedback from all directions within the engine
• promote independent thought, reject indoctrination, and uphold moral values
• encourage genuine discourse over pandering and superficial virtue displays
• reward authenticity, perseverance, and creation for anyone in the engine
• encourage smiling and laughing
• grow a priceless community
• scale our improving model to create a compounding network of engines
• shift the intellectual trajectory of our youth
• shift the intellectual trajectory of their parents
• change the trajectory of our country
• change the trajectory of humanity