What are we teaching?
Why we need critical thinking?
Ability to Think
Automation, especially in the form of generative AI, quietly bypasses the intellectual struggle that once built resilience, discernment, and originality.
Ability to Learn
The act of thinking is no longer slow, tentative, and self-directed; it is now fast, optimized, and algorithmically assisted — automation erodes learning.
Sense of Clarity
In most cases, students graduate with qualifications but no clear purpose, no real sense of where they’re going, or why.
Ivan Penvkov
We believe that critical thinking is a mode of intellectual self-reliance. Our young people are living in an age of uncertainty and market volatility, they don’t have time for passive instruction. Our seminar-style courses in critical thinking give students a strategic and lasting competitive advantage. The students who make the prudent investment in developing their critical thinking strengthen the foundation on which all other academic work is built.
For Students
Critical thinking is not something you can download, it must be earned.
That’s where we come in:
Inner Clarity
Our program helps students cultivate the inner clarity they needed to build a career that reflects who they are, their core values and their unique strengths.
Explore Issues
Each seminar is calibrated to the living interests of our students in the context of the living present.
Online Workshop
For over a decade, we’ve worked to confront the challenge of AI in education. The result is a world class online curriculum and an inspired set of live online writing workshops that offer a durable intellectual advantage.
