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The Virtue School

 γνῶθι σεαυτόν
   Know Thyself

Create Your Self
Your Society
Your World



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The Virtue School is a living inquiry.

It is not a finished “new school model” meant to replace existing systems. It is a way of understanding education—one that can be integrated into any school, subject, or curriculum by restoring its central purpose: aretē (excellence/virtue), lived as human flourishing (eudaimonia).

Learning is relational — an unfolding spiral in which teachers and students co-create a culture of attention, responsibility, and meaning. The movement is not closed or linear; it returns in order to deepen — through revision, growth, and renewal.

Education advances not by moving on, but by returning more deeply.

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"Everything you need to know is within you."

The task of the Virtue School is to "bring it out" of each student



with a focus on Nature within and without.



Rtanj — one possible site of the Virtue School (in an organic way, over time).
The deeper aim is universal: a living pedagogy that can be practiced anywhere.


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The philosophical sense of Virtue behind: The Virtue School

The School
Method and Goals
The Virtue School will combine the methods of Tekos and Freinet, integrating the ideas of Permaculture to:
  • aide the students in discovering their-'Self's;
  • within an interdependent relationship with their fellow students and Nature - in Community;
  • while each does their part to create a self-sustainable World.

Over Tekos, Freinet and Permaculture

Tekos
"This is the basic foundation on which all methodological features of our work are designed. The whole purpose of our strategy is aiming at the following questions - Who are we human beings? What are we meant to be? What is the world around us? Who are we to the World? And what is the World to us? " M.P. Shchetinin, director of the Tekos School in Russia
Contact

Jack Russey
direction@virtueschool.org

Radu-painting
Painting by Manga Radu in El Keller of the Tabacalera in Madrid, Spain.