Aurelia
Through Night, Unto Dawn
Mission: To save the world through a free, holistic education rooted in beauty - of the heart, mind, body, soul.
Vision: To manifest through education a healthy, sustainable future for man and nature alike, guiding diverse yet interrelated communities out of a materialistic night unto a more beautiful, holistic dawn.
Hints of Aurelia
From Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Lecture in 1972:
“Dostoevsky once let drop an enigmatic remark: ‘Beauty will save the world.’ What is this? For a long time it seemed to me simply a phrase. How could this be possible? When in the bloodthirsty process of history did beauty ever save anyone, and from what?
“But a true work of art carries its verification within itself…if the all too obvious and the overly straight sprouts of Truth and Goodness have been crushed, cut down, or not permitted to grow, then perhaps the whimsical, unpredictable, and ever surprising shoots of Beauty will force their way through and soar up…fulfilling the task of all three.
“Could not then art and literature in a very real way offer succor to the modern world?”
Rediscovering Beauty
Education, the Aurelian Way
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Reject Mass Schooling
The globalized, one-size-fits-all model rooted in 20th Century industry; seeks mass production of laborers through passive, rote instruction in mandatory classes meant to teach students how to work in secular bureaucracies
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Adopt Holistic Learning
Aurelia’s model, rooted in 21st Century flexibility and inspired by Montessori; seeks student fulfillment through a personalized curriculum of hands-on, project-based experiences meant to demonstrate how to build a healthy life
A World Worth Knowing
4 Pillars of Holistic Learning
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I: Access to Primary Texts
To better the world, one must understand the world. As such, Aurelia offers the texts necessary for a new generation to learn of their past, that they might better understand how to write their future.
Explore our FREE classics library:
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II: Real-Life Skill Development
Worldwide infrastructure is aging beyond repair and must be replaced. The skills to do so are no longer taught in classrooms, but Aurelia seeks to recover these so as to train a new generation to do just that.
Explore our FREE training programs:
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III: Customized K-12 Education
Opposed to the degrading one-size-fits-all model of mass schooling, Aurelia offers a curriculum for learners to progress at their own pace in the subjects which most interest them.
Explore our FREE K-12 lessons plans:
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IV: Natural Stewardship
To learn, one must not only study but act; thus, Aurelia seeks to create a mode by which students can use their hands to manage and conserve natural resources in an age of urbanized pollution.
Explore our Conservation strategies: