We are the School of Education, the University of Life, the Learning Factory. Many names will not change our one ultimate goal – to promote quality education, focused on everyday life, for the youngest age possible. Anyone reading these lines who has been around children knows that they are the ones who learn best and fastest. From barely crawling to running without being caught, from barely making a sound to talking nonstop. Due to the minimal responsibility we have in childhood, our brain can maximize its learning time. Children at age 6 learn programming, at 10 they are already teaching, and by 13 they know 5 languages and continue to learn. They dance with the confidence of “adults”, they are busy learning from morning till night and they are happy about it. And these are just some of the children I have personally come to know; want to imagine what the others can do?

The beauty is, we don’t have to imagine, we need to explore and find out with them what attracts them the most, what they love, what they are strong at, and what makes them unique from the rest. Strengthen the strengths and normalize the weaknesses. Instead, we have created an education system that tests us in the same way, normalizing our unique identity. Curricula that do not address essential topics for living long and happy lives. From money to psychology, life in society, relationships, communication skills, to art and creativity. Every lesson we teach children about an action they will encounter daily advances them to their next encounter. They will improve the chances of behaving as they learned independently and in the best way that will benefit them and society.

We value and love the teachers. They do their job faithfully. They are the gatekeepers of society, willing to spend so much time with all our children while we are busy with work or life. Few of us are interested, patient, or passionate about working in an environment where most of the people around us are children, so even if you think they could be better, try to imagine how hard it can be. In a format of 1 on 30, I don’t expect success in teaching. In an outdated education system that does not meet the needs of the modern child, there is no doubt that we all fear for the future of our education. And last but not least, our mobile phone that aspired to be the best friend in the world, especially for young children, who receive available distractions at any given moment, access to games, communication with people, and every other action we have allowed the phone to do for us. You can ask yourself how many children are on the phone during the lesson. And in combination with all these things, in addition to the hardest war in school, the social acceptance war, where “the popular ones” are admired, out of popularity often associated with cool behavior, or more precisely prohibited behavior (as a social norm and nothing more), children are left lonely, ostracized, without friends, and don’t lie to yourself that this is a small number of children.

Our school aims to improve all this. Intentionally, our classes are aimed at small groups, ranging from 1 on 1 meetings to groups of 5 children. The idea is to give each child maximum attention and encourage the shy ones to open up from the comfort of their home, in an open and enabling environment. On the other hand, the groups are meant to encourage fruitful and healthy conversation between children, creating connections, and working on joint projects throughout all the lessons.

Additionally, access to lesson recordings will allow children to learn at a time that suits them, not when required, adding another dimension to autonomous learning. Our lessons are geared towards everyday life tools. Our education system is unique, adaptive, changing according to the character of the students, their desires, curiosity, and abilities. The lesson plans are based on information that I wish I had received as a child in my school, which would have prepared me for 100 potential years of existence. Technologically, the use of computers for the purpose of the lesson was created from the belief that computers and the internet created a unique and perfect platform for connecting people from all over the world, on common topics, regardless of place and time. Our goal is to connect teachers and students from all over the world, to create a global network of education exchange, without regard to origin, personal differences, or particular opinions. We were established with one goal – to create the internet learning network connecting the most people in the world, out of the belief that quality education is the only way to positive advancement on Earth.

And one last special note – we have already given technology and progress the responsibility and control over most of our life’s paths, let’s not let them take away the last and most beautiful part of humanity – the uniqueness of the human brain and creative thinking. That same thinking that led to thoughts about equality, advanced medicine, music, art, sports, travel around the world, love, and mainly humor. Does anyone here think humor is bad, of any kind? We all grew up with different humor influenced by our life circumstances. But in a difficult moment, remember something funny, that someone told you or you remember happening, and remember – the greatness of the human brain is the creativity of the human brain – and humor is the measure of that. Where there is no humor, there is no life. Where there is life, there is humor. Laugh as long as you have teeth. Learn as long as your brain allows it. And help others as long as your body and soul allow it. Live, experience, fail, get up, try again, but mainly smile. Be happy. Find the good even if the bad is sometimes everywhere. Believe that tomorrow will be better if we just want it to be, and learn to improve and influence, for us, for others, for the world.