If we want our youth to turn into adults that are fulfilled, literate and connected to their families, culture, and global communities—what do we need to do? If we want life-long learners, ingenious thinkers and creative problem solvers, how do we nurture those qualities? If we want kids that are passionately engaged in life and society, where do we start? And if we want a society that spends less on jails, social services, crime prevention and health care, what needs to change?

Our vision is to synthesize research and promising practices related to how humans learn and develop, in order to entirely rethink the model of education in this country.

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Education is inherently and inevitably an issue of human goals and human values. One cannot even begin to develop an educational system unless one has in mind the knowledge and skills that one values, and the kind of individuals one hopes will emerge at the end of the day.

Howard Gardner

The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done—men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, [who] have minds which can be critical, can verify [rather than] accept everything they are offered.

Jean Piaget, Philosopher

The main goal of education should be to produce competent, caring, loving, and lovable people.

Nel Noddings, Professor Emeritis, Stanford University

The overarching purpose of schooling is to stimulate, capitalize on, and sustain the kind of motivation, intellectual curiosity, awe, and wonder that a child possesses when he or she begins schooling.

Seymour Sarason, Writer

33% of Canadians thought that the purpose of education should be to help students prepare for work, 23% thought schools should focus on citizenship and character building, 17% thought the most important goal is to encourage intellectual growth and the desire for learning.

Smyth (2001)

Education should not just prepare students to do things, but to decide what is worth doing.

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