“To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
What if we started there? This one’s for anyone building classrooms, tools, or systems for children. We’ve been asking: what shifts when we stop leading with our plans, and start by observing? When we trust that the child is already thinking, already learning, and worthy of our deepest attention.
This piece unpacks that quiet but powerful shift – the uncomfortable, essential work of letting go of control. Of slowing down just enough to notice what we might have missed. And beginning again, not from instruction or plans, but from trust. Trust that the child is already thinking, already learning. And from that trust, building with more care, more respect, and more intent. That’s what we call here as “Designing from High Status”Read here:
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