Imagine a school where children actually want to go. Not because they have to, but because they're curious. A school where learning feels light, because it’s individualized, creative, and meaningful. For me, that future starts now. ✨
If you're wondering what that might look like, just take a look at the image: four small scenes, four big ideas for a new kind of learning.
🧠 Learning at Your Own Pace – with AI Support
In the top left panel, we see a modern classroom. Children are working on tablets, accompanied by a friendly AI figure – a symbol of digital systems that help identify each student’s strengths and needs.
📚 Shared topics – yes.
🐢🐇 Shared pace – no.
Everyone learns at their own rhythm – with curiosity and confidence.
And the environment is safe. Or at least, it should be.
Right now, many schools – including ours – are facing serious issues in iPad-based classrooms. There’s a feature called "One More Minute" that neither parents nor teachers can disable or bypass. This vulnerability has been known to Apple for over five years, and yet nothing has changed.
Children are able to override screen time restrictions, and the tools we count on to support healthy media use are simply failing us. As a parent and educator, I often feel left completely alone in dealing with the consequences – and I know I’m not alone in this.
After months of frustration, we’ve made a radical but necessary decision:
We’ve completely cut off our child’s access to the internet—except for a personal whitelist of approved sites like Wikipedia, Kahoot!, Google, and AI tools, since he uses AI to learn Latin with his learning buddy the AI itself.
🚫 It’s not a perfect solution.
✅ But for now, it’s helping.
There are no more loopholes, and even our child feels relieved—because in many situations, he simply couldn’t stop, and sometimes didn’t even want to.
💬 If we want a school of the future, it needs more than smart tools. It needs real digital responsibility, better support for families, and a tech culture that truly protects children.
🤝 A Space for Community
In the top right, children are sitting outside, playing, moving, and learning together in the fresh air. It shows that school is more than just reading and math.
🌳 Outdoor learning,
🤸 Movement and play,
🧑🤝🧑 Togetherness - 🥇 competition is valuable, but with moderation
A space to live, not just to learn.
This part of the picture truly reflects what I see every week in my own lessons:
As soon as we step outside, everything shifts. The energy changes. Children start running, laughing, helping each other without even thinking about it. In movement, they find their rhythm – not just physically, but socially and emotionally too.
Sometimes, all it takes is a ball game or a silly song with actions to build connection and confidence.
💬 Learning happens in those in-between moments – when they cheer for each other, fall and get up again, or simply breathe and move under the open sky.
For me, that’s education in its purest form.
🎭 The Stage of Learning
In the bottom left, a joyful group of children performs on stage – dancing, acting, playing. Off to the side stands an adult, not instructing, but supporting.
🎭 Teaching becomes an experience – part story, part discovery, part show.
This scene reminds me of one of my favorite parts of the school year:
🎬 We create a theatre play together – from scratch. The children invent characters, write dialogues, rehearse scenes, and eventually perform it for their families.
They don’t just play a role – they grow into it. They learn how to speak clearly, listen to each other, remember lines, and support their team.
And the older kids?
🎥 They film the process or turn it into a comic book – a visual story they can share and be proud of.
💬 These projects don’t just teach language or creativity – they teach courage, collaboration, and the joy of being seen.
🧩 Development over Grades
In the bottom right, a child holds a tablet; around him are symbols of a new kind of learning: fruit, books, colors – and a helping hand.
Here, learning is holistic: mind, body, and creativity are all valued.
Instead of grades, we focus on goals and progress.
And adults offer guidance, not pressure.
Because there’s one thing we talk about all the time – and often still struggle to live by:
💬 "Mistakes are part of learning."
We say it again and again.
We encourage children to try, to risk, to fail.
And yet...
❓ Do we truly live that mindset ourselves?
❓ Do our systems and expectations reflect that belief?
Mistakes shouldn’t weigh us down.
They should lift us – because they show we’re trying, exploring, growing.
That’s why in this vision of school, development matters more than perfection.
And every learner, child or adult, deserves the space to get it wrong – and keep going.
In Conclusion:
The school of the future is colorful, flexible, and deeply human.
It uses technology, but keeps the focus on relationships.
It encourages instead of comparing.
It creates a place for connection and personal growth.
And honestly?
🎈I’d love to go back to a school like that myself.
