Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures

“What will happen if we give away free money? Won’t people just sit on the couch all day?” Underpinning these kinds of questions are two essential assumptions: (1) that money, a vehicle we use to exchange value, is intrinsically linked to labor, and to separate the two would be like reversing gravity, and (2) that leisure is something lacking in va

key to the work of changing the world is changing the story….One

Learning is a political act because all learning consciously or unconsciously impacts our ability to contribute to a more—or less—moral world.

In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacial pace of change of the education system cannot match the agility of the real world, where a single moment can rewrite and reorganize its foundations.

Society is stitched together through a shared code for what we believe and how those beliefs translate to the way we live. In the same way that the operating system of our computers dictates the basic functions it performs, culture is a kind of operating system that dictates how society functions. A set of rules, normative behaviors, and collective

Times of transformation require ever greater scrutiny of what kind of government is relevant to communities so essentially redefining themselves.

It is not enough to raise awareness and launch an assault upon legacy narratives. To successfully dissolve them, we need to articulate what a healthier alternative may look like.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility.

Radical Curiosity requires that we approach the world critically, rather than passively. It compels us to question the ways in which power operates, often invisibly, rather than accepting the power structures that the world has presented to us.

Knowledge can no longer be thought of as a destination, a fixed point, or a static state. Curiosity is a verb for living rather than a noun to hold. In this conception of learning we may not seek instructors of knowledge as much as guides to experiences.