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“Located in Denmark’s second-largest city, Aarhus, KaosPilots is a three-year college for action-oriented revolutionaries—and that’s why class assignments, like the project in Sarajevo, are not confined within school walls.

At KaosPilots, young people (starting at 21) learn how to set up and carry out projects, sell their ideas, put together a business plan, stimulate creativity, work cooperatively, inspire others and themselves, take advantage of unexpected events, remain open to new ideas, bring mind and body into balance, and keep their heads cool and their hearts warm. They learn, in fact, how to realize their dreams.”

What a fascinating school.

The most unusual college in the world | OdeWire

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Instead of writing papers for their business class, five Scandinavian students—all of them women—used a school assignment to do a good deed for fellow young people in Bosnia. They rented a small room in Sarajevo and set about restoring “some joy” to the city. They asked 600 young people to paint

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