Series I examined how education drifted from its purpose, and how learning became detached from the conditions of living. Series II turns toward a different inquiry: If learning does not belong primarily in institutions, where does it belong?
This series begins with a simple but often overlooked truth: learning is not separate from living. It unfolds through participation, relationship, work, care, and encounter with the world. Long before schooling systems existed, humans learned by navigating their environments, responding to real needs, and making meaning in community.
Series II returns learning to this ground. The essays situate learning within life itself—in place, in community, and in lived experience. They challenge the assumption that learning is preparation for a future moment, rather than a continuous process embedded in the present.
A central concern of this series is disconnection: from place, from community, from bodily and intuitive knowing, and from the rhythms of the natural world. When learning is detached from these contexts, it becomes thin—informational rather than transformative.