Some simple principles and foundations for my ideal school:

Mandatory physical fitness and culture

You cannot build robust students without robust physical health, and physiological power. A student with more muscle mass and less body fat (no sugar allowed) will be a more productive, creative, and focused student. This seems obvious to me.

Ideals

1. Open mindedness. No “PC” [politically correct] lingo allowed. Students should have free reign to question everything without being told by teachers that they are ‘wrong’.
2. Mandatory computer science, physics, and biology courses. Philosophy is something they can pursue through debate.
3. Mandatory writing: Every student to create their own website-blog. To learn how the internet *really* works. Also, highly suspicious of Google (anti-learning), as Google PREVENTS students from thinking, wondering, and questioning — ‘Why is that?‘

Ambition is king.

All genders. All races. All backgrounds. All socio-economic backgrounds. To be accepted into the school is less about your background, it is about the individual student’s desire to become more. Only ambitious students allowed.

What if the kid isn’t ambitious?

Then that is the fault of the parent. If a parent is ambitious, they will teach their children to be ambitious. Parents need to take more extreme responsibility. School ain’t no day-care, nor should educators be expected to pick up the slack of poor parenting at home.

A more military-approach

Students able to differentiate themselves based on effort, tenacity, physical strength (powerlifting), and aberrant thinking. All students required to wear uniforms. All same sneakers — no kid being able to wear $700 Balenciaga sneakers to flex their wealth. No smartphones allowed. Every student assigned a MacBook laptop and iPad. Students take notes on pen and pad. Laptop used for creative or computer-science based projects. iPad for digital creativity and creation. For taking photos, students utilize a ‘modular‘ camera, to understand how the camera really works.

Mandatory technology bias course

To understand how bias works in technology. To understand how algorithms work, and how they sneakily skew our thinking.

Wonderment is the goal

The goal:

Train students to think critically, to judge things for themselves, and become more creative and WONDER more!

ERIC

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