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 education is competency-based and accessible, housing is affordable and cooperative, work is purposeful and adaptive, and every individual has the opportunity to - of the heart, mind, body, and soul.

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

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 Priorities

Health of the People as the Highest Law

  • II: Home

    A successful holistic education will manifest the sense of home, in both the individual and communal sense, for the student who authentically reaches for that which the ancient Greeks called oikos.

  • I: Health

    A successful holistic education will manifest as health in heart, mind, body and soul for the student who authentically reaches for that kind of wellness the ancient Greeks referred to as eudaemonia.

  • III: Heritage

    A successful holistic education will manifest as a cultural heritage in art, blood, and soul for the student who authentically reaches for the fulfillment of potential that ancient Greeks named arete.

Our Solutions

Community Development as Education

  • 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

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?”