HTSYOS

Getting Deeply Involved

In 1960 a small group of families in Wichita KS got better acquainted with education as members of a small private school courageously started and single-handedly operated by a dedicated educator in memory of her son.  In time, that small group split off in an event that might be called evolutionary educational mitosis.

What do we mean by evolutionary educational mitosis?

• evolutionary - pertaining to the growth, maturity and development of a living thing  over time

• educational - intending or serving to bring out, lead forth or rear up

• mitosis - the process of nuclear division.

Or ... to put it simply, those few families

• took what they learned about education from others,

• nurtured it according to their specific vision for their own children and

• started their own school ... recorded in the 1973 book "How to Start Your Own School".

Starting schools is as natural as starting families.  And the result of starting just one school often reverberates across time as ... you guessed it ...  evolutionary educational mitosis.

With the dislocations and discontent provoked by COVID, the starting of new schools by small groups of families and teachers is once again becoming a cultural phenomenon which is making waves and headlines at many levels of society as it gathers momentum.

But did you know, as James Tooley explains in his latest book, that starting Really Good Schools has been quietly happening with astounding results among the global poor for decades?

Why not GET A BOOK and READ ALL ABOUT IT YOURSELF ... connect the past, present and future in an act of duty with reverence which are the aims of all education.