Many of the largest conurbations in the world are socially fractured. The victims of this fracture are the city's children. Survival, which often means crime, is a priority. Education fails because its purpose is opaque and little understood. Clarity of purpose, and the need for clarity of purpose, has not been explicitly stated in the teaching profession.
Teachers tend to assume that the value of what they do is obvious and understood.
This is far from being the case. Education for Life is strictly utilitarian, in the Benthamite sense that it believes in social utility. It also believes that such utility should be transparent. It is opposed to the growing movement to reintroduce religious-based schooling, formal disciplines and ethical certainties. The first part of the project addresses the skills that individuals needed to help them deal with the self and with others-parents, friends, school, community, workplace, nation and the world.