Letter to Sense & Sensibility & Science

I would like access to the online course materials. We are creating curriculum from scratch. The curriculum would be 2 days per week focused explicitly on learning how to learn, literally to regain one's genius (98% of 5 year olds appear to be geniuses). The rest of the time is collaborative design and learning to build things. The program is not virtual - but both 'books' and a Rapid Learning Facility for hands-on learning. One of our goals is to solve the essential problem defined in Excellent Sheep by Deresiewicz (this issue traumatized me during my Princeton undergrad). Education focused explicitly on solving pressing world issues, and distribution in economics, is a related goal. I can fill you in on our model of change if you'd like.

We need help in organizing courses consisting of sets of 24 survey, 1 hour lessons. Each course would be exposing key topics of rapid learning, 'learning how to learn', moral intelligence, peak performance, architecture of knowledge, general semantics, mental models, numeracy, writing, etc - like the SSS course. But also with developing strategies for how to learn effectively - by topic, technology, sector, discipline or area of knowledge, endeavor - etc - in order to recognize underlying patterns of structure such that a student can take on a new area and learn about it in the most effective way. The goal is to teach somebody how to reach the 'edge of knowledge' in any field or endeavor - to be able to identify unsolved frontiers, important questions, points of improvement, etc - such that the individual is enabled to contribute seminal progress in that field. This sounds much like what one does after a postdoc, but we would like to enable any candidate with an open mind - cultivated by 'learning how to learn' - to reach this in 4 years from entering our program at 18 yo or so. And being able to reach the edge of knowledge in any endeavor, whether tech, medicine, education, poetry, manufacturing, international relations, farming, space exploration, etc. This would be done in conjunction with developing physical learning labs (the Rapid Learning Facility) which facilitates the most effective pedagogy via a modular ecosystem of learning experiments where students build, produce, or otherwise create tangible products.