FOR SCHOOLS
Prepare your students for a future shaped by AI.
Join a small group of schools reimagining education for an AI world — through socratic discussions that build the higher level cognitive skills students need.
What the future demands.
according to those thinking hardest about it.
“The last thing a teacher needs to give her pupils is more information. They already have far too much of it. Instead, people need … to tell the difference between what is important and what is unimportant.”
Yuval Noah HarariHistorian, author of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.”
Dario AmodeiCEO of Anthropic, from "The Adolescence of Technology"
“Just as calculators did not replace the need for learning math, AI will not replace the need for learning to write and think critically.”
Ethan MollickWharton professor, author of Co-Intelligence
Discernment > Knowledge
When Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) arrives, knowledge will stop being scarce. AI will be the ultimate knowledge worker. Knowing how to do things will collapse in importance. What rises — is knowing what is worth doing at all.
That capacity has a name. It's called discernment: the ability to hold hard questions and weigh what actually matters. You don't get it from consuming more content. You get it the way humans always have — by wrestling with hard questions, arguing it out with others who have different opinions, and holding values in tension.
That is exactly what the Good Society Readings are. By reading and discussing ideas by thinkers like Plato and Seneca, students get a training ground to develop their discernment.
We've made it simple for any school to introduce GSR to their students and we're inviting a small group of founding schools to join us.
What are the Good Society Readings?
Thought provoking text
Students read thinkers like Plato and Seneca, or an old parable worth sitting with — chosen to surface what they actually believe about how we should live.
A real discussion
A small group of up to 15 comes together live to think it through, reflecting in the app as they go. No lecture. No right answer. Just good questions and honest disagreement.
A personal manifesto
Each student leaves with more than a 'good discussion': the app helps them turn their reflections into a personal manifesto — a short, written statement of what they've come to believe. Their own thinking, made real.
Four live sessions, weekly or biweekly, in groups of up to 15 — facilitated by our founder and supported by the Good Society Readings app.
How it works for schools
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You bring students together.
It's virtual — you simply gather a small group (up to 15) of your students to take part.
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We facilitate sessions.
Over four sessions, weekly or biweekly, our founder leads your students through the readings live — and they reflect in the app as they go.
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Students design a personal manifesto.
By the end, each student has turned their reflections into a personal manifesto — a short statement of what they've come to believe.
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Together, we shape what this becomes.
As a founding school, you give us honest feedback that directly shapes the initiative.
Founding cohort
Become a Founding School
We're bringing together a small group of schools to reimagine education for an AI future. It's free for founding schools because we believe the way to build this is through partnerships with forward-thinking schools.
You get
- Early access to the Good Society Readings app
- Four sessions personally facilitated by our founder, live
- A genuine hand in shaping the initiative
- Recognition as a founding school
We ask
- Bring together a group of your students for the four sessions this year
- Give us your honest feedback
The guide
Navin Muruga
Founder, Ethos
Navin facilitated fellowship programs as the Southeast Asia Lead at Acumen Academy — delivering developmental experiences for the region's most promising changemakers. Ethos brings that same philosophy — knowing what you value, and acting on it — to teenagers.
His practice draws on Harvard's Adaptive Leadership, Integral Coaching, and Kegan & Lahey's Immunity to Change — frameworks he has worked with across more than thirty cohorts of emerging leaders.
He is also a father of two boys — it's the reason he founded Ethos.
Acumen Academy SEA · Transcend Fellow · TEDx Speaker
Questions
- Is it free?
- Yes.
- Is it run virtually / in-person?
- Sessions are held virtually.
- How much time does it take?
- Four sessions of about 60 minutes each, run weekly or biweekly.
- Who facilitates it?
- Our founder facilitates every session personally, live online.
- What ages is it for?
- Designed for 15 onwards and adaptable to your students.
- What about safeguarding and student data?
- A member of your staff joins every session, and sessions are not recorded. In the app we collect only a first name and the student's own reflections — no surnames, email addresses or photos — and we never contact students directly. Any safeguarding concern goes straight to your designated lead.
Give your students room to think.
Bring the Good Society Readings to a group of your students — and help shape what education becomes. We're welcoming a small group of founding schools.
Prefer email? Write to hello@schoolofethos.com.