You know how it sort of seemed like all the stuff you learned in school you learned between classes? On your way to lunch? In the things that never appeared on a syllabus or test?

How do we capture that stuff and make it “what our school teaches?”

How do we turn an artist’s love of color, the CEO’s interest in leadership, an entrepreneur’s bent toward innovation, a parent’s need to understand child development, and a dentist’s willingness to take on tartar into what’s best for them and who they serve?

If the best thing we do is look after each other, then the worst thing we do is pretend to look after each other when in fact we are doing something else.

—Adam Phillips

How do we reliably make each of us and our systems more likely to look after each other rather than pretend to look after each other? Especially in an age when pretend follows us on every screen and into each moment?

These are ongoing questions about which any answers will always be provisional but which we do well to answer together. The artists, it turns out, have much to tell the CEO, and vice versa.

For now, here are find some provisional answers:

Molly School is for people who want to put beauty at the center of how they learn and live.

We promote cross generational learning, mine art to guide business, and argue for female leadership.

We teach what we need to learn and our mission is to establish a global village that pays people to do their thing and to give.

And when Emerson says:

there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

We read that as a challenge to nurture the genius of each of us–lost as it is to materialism, technology, and the general hubbub of a connected and modern life–such that we can actually and really make the world better: more just, less fractious, cooler on the street and cooler in the atmosphere too.

Join us,

Molly