How to start a school with your friends

45 geverett 8 5/8/2025, 7:34:36 PM prigoose.substack.com ↗

Comments (8)

jbellis · 33m ago
Love to see it!

Wonder how to reconcile the description of almost-negligible admin overhead with this description of a similar effort that warns, "We wanted to keep costs extremely low, so we had parent volunteers do all admin for the school. It's going really well, but it's an insane amount of work."

From my experience both teaching kids and organizing things, that seems like a much more likely outcome.

https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1917287461027459239

maxverse · 2h ago
The Recurse Center[1] folks (also YC) started an un-school with friends!

[1] http://recurse.com/

ChrisMarshallNY · 41m ago
That looks very cool.

As someone that has given a number of classes and seminars, it gets fairly discouraging, how few folks want to learn.

I think that establishing a learning-focused community (like this) would probably really get a lot of people engaged.

Geeks like learning. Many others don't. It's always fairly demoralizing, when I encounter it.

aspenmayer · 1h ago
geverett · 4h ago
A coliving house in NYC started a 'university' that has taught thousands of students in the last two years.
carom · 2h ago
Any more details on this?
Jtsummers · 1h ago
That's what the submitted link is about. GP posted a comment about the thing they submitted in addition to submitting it.
fitsumbelay · 1h ago
D O P E !