Energy levels should be gauged whenever someone enters or leaves the LearnLife Urban or Eco campus. A special machine I invented – I called it the EGMeter – is placed at the door and gives a loud beeping, almost bell-sounding noise when someone enters with a frown. If someone attempts to leave with a frown, the doors and windows are immediately shut down and the perimeter of the hub is turned into a no-entry zone until a learn guide comes and solves the problem or directs the person on who’s face the frown was spotted to the rightful authorities.

Such is the style of LL.

Getting closer to our goal everyday is a form of patience and is valuable. It’s putting the end goal on the back burner while we tick the “do this everyday” box. Be humble, ready to listen so honour will follow; it will come not slowly, but suddenly when you have enough pressure behind you that the dam has no choice but to give.

Our enemy with education is not strong, it is weak but its numbers and reach is what makes it impressive. Ideas in the minds of people who have followed a certain paradigm since birth are tough to change, that’s what makes our journey worthwhile. Communication is key and is the best and most fundamental unit of change: doing that everyday, I think, is worthwhile.

Stay tuned for more communication.

The sands of time wait for no one. You either ride the moving train or you are left behind. If you find yourself in a tunnel or at a standstill, don’t be afraid nor be sad: the patience will serve you well when you emerge into the light.

Such is education, in a deep dark tunnel for dare I say centuries now. Many have tried to create new paradigms but have not succeeded in creating but cracks. We, at Hadya Education, believe that a real and undeniable change in how we interpret education is coming, and it’s name, is LearnLife. Take time to read and explore their philosophy. Take time to understand their journey. We are working tirelessly to make a dent and so see the light. So… hop on and join us on our journey.

The labour of patience is bitter, yet the fruits are sweet. Months and months of waiting and working in the silence has finally paid off for the Hadya team when it came to agreeing with LearnLife on a plan, looking forward 6, 9, and 12 months. The next year will, inshalla, be filled with colourful activities and honest work towards changing the world for children for the better; indeed, they are our leaders of tomorrow.

From writing articles and online media to studying the intricate details of what makes the LearnLife paradigm great, we will keep you posted for what we are sure will raise your eyebrows and make you not only interested, but even ready to shed a tear. So… stay tuned and help us make education better for every child, teacher, and parent; heck, whoever cares about a better future!

Best,

Abdulrahman

So we’ve delved into the what and why of revolutionising education. Our beliefs are planted firmly and masts set straight towards Spain, the country of sun, sand and siestas. LearnLife Barcelona is a next generation educational platform and organisation that works tirelessly and around the clock to provide students with the resources and tools to pave for themselves their own learning journeys.

Our first encounter with them was beyond positive, they seemed to the most well grounded educational idea of the 21st Century – at least from those that we’ve encountered. Come 18th March, we will deep dive into an immersion program lasting for a few days run by LearnLife themselves. Excited and with our eyes set firmly on our goal, we will update you on what happens.

We all accept that the world is round and that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. With same level of clarity and embedded truth as the above, we hold that every parent desires that their children to achieve their true potential. Our journey with LearnLife began along the lines of a similar universal truth, a desire to seek a better educational experience for students that really allows them to express who they are throughout their schooling.

Look back at the history of the 20th century, a time of massive scientific achievements and discovery – the discovery of the neutron in 1932, relativity in 1905 and 1915, and nuclear power; all leading to the Cold War. Can you spot a disconnect? We see at least one: and that is between the speed of development of science and the on the ground reality of how we achieve learning based on the foundational blocks set in the 19th Century. It is no secret among students, nor teachers, nor parents that our current education system is failing… and miserably at that. Let us delve into the reasons why we believe that is the case, and what we imagine the path to be for educational reform and revolution to come out of hibernation.

We live in rapidly changing world – the proof, if we care to look is in front of our eyes, change has become a necessary reality in the gadgets we hold in our hands as it was in the biology it took to survive millions of years ago. Advances in science and technology are increasing at an exponential rate, a rate that is accelerating in proportion to its growth, for those number geeks out there. Physics, mathematics, music, languages, history, geography… sound familiar enough? Really, it should be for any high school graduate of the 21st Century. School as we know it is the base ingredient that we have chosen, and I use my words very carefully, indeed chosen to engender the opportunities of our denizens of tomorrow. Not to state the obvious, though in fact, it is our only window to our future only one generation from now. Our massive strides and yet expected breakthroughs and successes as a human race await and our children are counting on it. From a man on the moon to a man on mars, all is only possible through education, and quote me on it!

Wonder with us, dear reader, if a time traveler from 1923 zinged and poofed himself (or herself) forward a hundred years. What could he recognise today while his friends who are getting good at manually toggling a radiotelophone are waiting patiently for Einstein to discover his theory of special relativity? Could we explain to him our jargon and esoteric scientific terms? Would he appreciate the comfort of fully air conditioned cars, the sitting back on the sofa and using an iPhone to switch through limitless entertainment options from many meters away. Would he believe his ears when he is told that science has conquered many of the diseases that brought fear to populations across the globe? He would certainly ask for a glass of water and a seat when he hears that man has gone to and back from the moon!

As the list of achievements expands as infinitely as the universe, and Nobel prize winners increase in number while the gasps of the audience decrease as they become numb to the technological progress they were exposed to from birth, there remains one place in which our traveler might find a wierd sense of comfort – one place that remains strangely recognisable. That place has, ironically, barely changed one bit in relation to other fields of technological advancements and discovery. That place is where it all started: the classroom.

For all of the incredible achievements that mankind has made in the 20th Century and the near first quarter of the 21st Century, there is one place that has remained effectively static. Of course, besides the smart boards and online work spaces that we use in our classrooms, the essential format has become for many stale and unchanging, clearly past its expiration date. We have tens of young students staring seated and muted towards the top of the room where the teacher takes stage. Whilst curriculums do develop and take a more positive outlook over time in line with our societal goals, the way we deliver education holds stubbornly to the same mundane ways (hold tight… more on this later). In fact, for our reminescing time traveler the modern classroom may induce surprisingly striking memories of his own childhood.

Take home this simple thought experiment, and we hope our time traveler has imbued in you, as he has done in us, a desire to unearth better ways to educate ourselves and our children. Our desire, with HALJ, is to revisit how education is thought about and talked about. We try to keep an open mind and to add value to the system that in many ways made us who we are. We sincerely strive to impact the ways in which our children are taught to become our leaders to the future.

We encourage all readers to hold our hands on this long and exciting  journey to our future as humanity. It is a journey that involves the input and passion of all stakeholders: students, parents, and teachers alike and beyond. Together, we will adapt ourselves to fit, expand, and develop, with time, all of our communities, big and small. It is a journey that I would like to share with all of you henceforth in this blog. Please stay tuned.

Abdulrahman & Vincent

Alarm clock rings, and I press the big button that says “Stop” on my phone. A deep breath. Those few extra few sweet minutes of sleep will be useful, actually absolutely essential for getting through my day.

I wish school didn’t exist. What if all schools suddenly weren’t there, blown up by some freak sand storm or drone attack from the Martians. I can see the ufo’s coming and closing in with their laser precise aiming. Next, they hit Mr.

“Aleeex!” 

“Uhhhh” that’s trouble, I need to sound like I’m ready.

“Just a minute mom!! I’m changing.”

Get out of bed quick, I don’t have much time.

The school day starts as every other. Teachers going on and on about things I have no interest in learning, insisting that it’s for my benefit. The clock seconds seem to get slower in Mrs. Farleys chemistry class. If I could sleep and not get caught, I would. It’s the staying up that is the trouble. I wish school would actually be interesting… the only thing I look forward to is catching up with the lads.