This 16-page zine is a hand-bound manifesto for anyone who has ever wondered what school (education in general, really!) is actually...

This 16-page zine is a hand-bound manifesto for anyone who has ever wondered what school (education in general, really!) is actually for. Because truly, what exactly is education for? 

Compliance? Productivity? Memorizing things for tests and forgetting them soon after? We have questions...

What Is Education For? walks through the model we inherited (the Factory Model, sometimes called the Banking Model), the philosopher behind it, and the case for another path. This 16-page hand bound zine explores a deceptively simple question with enormous implications. It is part manifesto, part provocation, part pocket-sized rebellion, this little publication asks what education could become if it centered curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, agency, and liberation instead of obedience and standardization.

Inside you'll find

• The factory model of education (and why it deserves some side-eye)
• Why curiosity should come before performance
• Critical thinking as a survival skill
• Paulo Freire and liberatory education
• The role of the humanities in helping us understand ourselves and the world
• Essential questions worth asking about the kind of future we want to build
• Why learning should awaken us, not control us
  

A philosophy primer in your back pocket. A conversation starter for the dinner table. This is for educators, parents, students, former students, recovering perfectionists, curious humans, and anyone who has ever thought: "surely there has to be more to education than this?" Small enough to slip into a bag. Big enough to start an argument (the good kind).