school of everything

co-founded by Dougald Hine.

from the about page:

We set up School of Everything because we think the way the current education system is organised is a bit rubbish, rigid and out of date. Loads of different ideas and projects inspired the idea but one story stands out. In the 1960s a group of people set up the Free U in sunny California – it started with blank piece of paper pinned to a notice board asking what people could teach and once subjects were listed and there were enough people signed up to each they ran the courses. Makes sense really doesn’t it? We just decided to turn that into a 21st century new fangled website thingy so you can design your own education however you please.

Five of us co-founded the School of Everything (Peter Brownell, Andy Gibson, Mary Harrington, Dougald Hine and Paul Miller) and with help from the Young Foundation we set about turning the idea into reality. We’re backed by an amazing group of investors (Channel 4, Esther Dyson, Tim Jackson, Sean Park, Rocco Pellegrinelli, JP Rangaswami and the Young Foundation) and run the site from our office in leafy Bethnal Green in east London.