Through Night, Unto Dawn

Ensuring a Human Future in the Age of AI

Mission: To maintain the health of the people in the face of increasing social, financial, and technological disruption.

Vision: To guide society out of its materialistic night, unto a more humane dawn through an education that teaches how to produce more affordable housing, food, energy of the heart, mind, body, and soul.

Two Catholic school teachers asked the question: Can a single organization save the modern world?

Despite rising concerns about the impact of technology on everything from jobs, housing, privacy, pollution, energy, warfare, even population decline, little to nothing has been done to prepare human communities for the upheaval all but promised by their artificial intelligence interconnected world. Politicians offer no reprieve, journalists offer no critiques, and think tanks publish no alternatives. It is almost as if our leaders have already accepted the premise offered by those who seek to create our replacements, and this is made evident by the financial prioritization of a smaller and smaller number . Until now.

Our Solution

Rethinking Life in the Midst of Technology

  • Reject Mass Schooling

    The global, one-size-fits-all model rooted in 20th Century industry; seeks mass production of laborers through passive, rote instruction in classes meant to teach students how to pass tests, maintain bureaucracies, and reinforce social norms

  • Adopt Holistic Learning

    Aurelia’s model, a synthesis of 21st Century flexibility and traditional mentorship; seeks human fulfillment through personalized studies of classic texts with self-paced development of skills meant to lead students to a healthy, beautiful life

Holistic Learning

Community Development as Education

  • Reform & Personalize Education

    Choose a self-paced track to pursue your interests and explore our free K-12 lessons:

    Choose a major ethnic canon to study as a specialty and explore our free classics library:

  • Restore Skills through Mentorship

    Choose a training program to guide your career and explore our free skills catalogue to grow:

  • Increase Local Energy Production

  • Rebuild Food & Water Infrastructure

    Choose a community development program and explore our goals to help rebuild society:

  • Develop Affordable Housing

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?”

Elements of Holistic Education

  • Personalized Learning

    Learning model that allows students to choose what books to read, what subjects to specialize in, and what pace is appropriate for proving competency in every course

  • Affordable Curriculum

    Cheap or free texts, assignments, assessments, and lesson plans provide access to a customizable model of learning for students to engage in a classical education at their own pace

  • Social Learning Centers

    Community centers encourage the restoration of the local social fabric while providing space for libraries, study groups, health care, family support, maker spaces, and testing sites

  • Local Trade Programs

    Hands-on classes that teach trade skills to generations by providing tools in maker spaces, developing mentorship opportunities in crucial careers for local economies

  • Spiritual Infrastructure

    All humans have faith in something, but in modern times this is often rejected; in this vacuum, Aurelia seeks to rebuild the socio-economic networks necessary to renew faith in God

  • Family Preparation

    The natural desire to form family has been increasingly discouraged in post-industrial societies; thus, Aurelia offers free materials to prepare for and maintain this sacred act

  • Local Beautification

    Beautiful communities reflect and encourage beautiful lives, with restored, long-lasting architecture acting as a vessel for continued human love, faith, comradery, and heritage