The Peoples' Institute for Re-thinking Education and Development

The Student's Prayer

Umberto Maturana

DonÔÇÖt impose on me what you know,

I want to explore the unknown

and be the source of my own discoveries.

Let the known be my liberation, not my slavery.

The world of your truth can be my limitation;

your wisdom my negation.

DonÔÇÖt instruct me; letÔÇÖs walk together.

Let my riches begin where yours ends.

Show me so that I can stand

on your shoulders.

Reveal yourself so that I can be

something different.

You believe that every human being

can love and create.

I understand, then, your fear

when I ask you to live according to your wisdom.

You will not know who I am

by listening to yourself.

DonÔÇÖt instruct me; let me be.

Your failure is that I be identical to you.

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Alivelihoods vs. Deadlihoods

We have interacted with thousands of youth and have found the most common and important question asked by young people in their education today has nothing to do with the syllabus or with what is h

This revolution will not be schooled: How we are collectively improvising a 'new story' about learning

Around the world, in puddles of silent reclamation, young people, communities and inspired collectives are co-enacting a radically different narrative about education and development

Exposing the Illusion of the Campaign for Fundamental Right to Education

Is the Right to Education a blessing or a curse? This pamphlet seeks to open a debate on the Right to Education Campaign.

If not schooling, then what? Learning Parks of Possibilities

Learning Parks was one of the first experiments co-created by Shikshantar in Udaipur in the year 2000

10 Lies My School Taught Me

What lies have you been taught by your school? How have you been trying to unlearn them?

Seven Deadly Sins of Schooling

Factory-schooling is guilty of its own deadly sins. It is important for those working in the field of education to understand the serious damage that factory-schooling does to our children and to our wider species.