Foreward

An astonishingly original way of teaching that uses novels, poems, plays, and comics to do more than impart technical skills—it uses them to cultivate personal purpose, emotional wholeness, self-insight, and other forms of human intelligence that cannot be replicated by computer AI.

A radically empowering curriculum that places each student’s unique background, individual psychology, and creative potential at the center of the classroom, inviting learners to grow their love of reading and their capacity for imaginative scholarship by partnering with teachers to co-create a syllabus that generates new knowledge.

A rigorous method, rooted in neuroscience and biology, and continually refined via large scale data collection and expert analysis, through a democratic network open to millions worldwide.

That is what Mary Isbell has created. And what you, dear reader, are about to discover in this book.