I have always had the idea that a cool pan-age engineering education institute should be founded on such a space. In fact your offered location sounds ideal: cl

I have always had the idea that a cool pan-age engineering education institute should be founded on such a space. In fact your offered location sounds ideal: close enough to a city to capitalize on its resources but sufficiently removed to be free of unwanted distractions. Kids of all ages are accepted into the program, and they don't pay any fees, but have to sustain and support themselves. They form a tight-knit community as follows. - home schooling to a new level: kids of all ages and experiences are here. Teach each other in organized classes what you know and is useful, from arts, engineering, math, physics, biology, anything. Basic supervision and occasional classes by the "founding adults". - self-sustaining: farm some food, raise some animals, with help from on-site professionals. Use technology to improve this and help out those professionals (see below) - BYOS: build your own school. Identify needs of the community (we need a toolshed. we need a water sprinkler system. we need air conditioning...). Learn to raise funds, some from the "founding adults", some from parents, some from neighboring city. Kids learn to work within a timeline, a budget, scoping projects, designing engineering systems, implementing, and overcoming roadblocks. As a team. - Bring back to the real world: to graduate the institute, they basically have to create something of value to bring back to the rest of the world. Evaluated by a community panel of students, "founding adults" and external visitors/evaluators. This makes them apply what they've learned outside of the bubble they've been living in. - alumni could obviously love this place so much they want to stay on, in which case they transition to becoming "founding adults" Obviously, there are no exams, or mandatory lectures, or homework, or any of that shit. Kids have to learn to be good people to not get expelled, and they have to produce some meaningful value for the community every month of the year. That's it. It's a bit idealistic, but I think doable, and is more in-line with what education should be like in today's world. If I were allowed to stay in the US and had the capital in my pocket to cover everything your generous offer didn't, I would be on the next flight to O'hare.