"I love it; it's amazing… a brilliant beginning to what will hopefully become a worldwide movement of how we educate for the future."
      – Training course feedback, 2008

Essential Education proposes that developing our natural capacity for compassion and wisdom is the key to making our lives happier and more peaceful – and to being able to make a positive contribution in the world.

Over the past five years, our books and training courses have been used in schools, hospices, prisons and workplaces on five continents. They are suitable for people of all ages, cultures and traditions.

To find out more about Essential Education, check out these four key documents (all PDFs):

• What is Essential Education? – the most important information on a single page
• The Core Curriculum – an introduction to the investigative bedrock that supports all Essential Education programmes
• An Introduction to the 16 Guidelines – a one-page overview of Essential Education's first initiative
• Selected Quotes – the words of our founder, patron and honorary president on the vision behind Essential Education

You can read about the history of Essential Education here.