What if our greatest educational failure is that we forgot how to play?

In a world obsessed with metrics, compliance, and performative achievement, we’ve sidelined the one human capacity that actually fuels creativity, courage, and innovation: the radical, subversive act of play.

Drawing on the New Art School Manifesto, the ideas of John Ruskin, and the disruptive critiques of John Taylor Gatto and Neil Postman, arguing that real education begins the moment schooling ends and play begins.

If you care about the future of learning, design, creativity, or simply the future of free people, I invite you to read it.

Let’s reclaim play as a cultural force.

Let’s rebuild education from the imagination outward.