UNTAUGHT
EDUCATION
The Dumbest Question in Education
Photo by Noelia Serrano (TMN®).
There is nothing dumber than asking a child what they want to be when they grow up. Adults assume kids are “cute” and therefore less capable. They confuse innocence with stupidity.
But kids are not the problem.
Adults are.
And I get it. I was also shaped by adults; not all of them visionary, not all of them wise. Many tried to make me believe that without a college degree I would be “no one.” That idea is not only wrong, it’s discriminatory.
Yes, I did the degree.
No, it did not help me in the way it was supposed to.
It helped in other ways, but certainly not to “find a job.”
As you grow up, school teaches you how to feed an ego, not how to build critical thinking. It teaches you to memorize instead of reflect. And the worst part: it makes you hate education (with reason!).
We’ve been sold the idea that learning must be miserable, that struggle equals virtue, that you only “deserve” education once you suffer for it. But that’s not learning.
That’s conditioning.
Education doesn’t have to be:
sitting in a classroom designed like a punishment chamber,
repeating information to an adult as proof of obedience,
pretending you want to become the person standing in front of the room.
I hate three words: school, classroom, students.
All three carry authoritarian architecture.
School: a place built for control.
Classroom: a box where movement goes to die till boredom.
Student: a role assigned to strip individuality until a printed certificate says you’re “valid.”
For what?
What exactly is being certified?
TMN® is none of that.
TMN® is the first space where young people learn and work in the same place, where education is not a simulation but a lived engaging experience. This is how education should look in the future.
We’re at least 20 years ahead of traditional systems.
And the shift will be so big that even the so-called “renowned universities” will collapse —not because of us, but because they built themselves as dinosaurs: oppressive, rule-obsessed, allergic to new ideas; egocentric, maniacally focused on titles, numbers, and CV bullets. Even the institutions that call themselves “progressive” remain trapped inside their own hierarchies.
Universities were created to monetize learning, not to liberate minds.
That model is already breaking.
For the first time in my life I’m living inside a space (TMN®) where I can breathe, where mistakes are not punishable offenses, where creation is not filtered through empty egos, where I’m not doing “whatever I want,” but whatever makes sense.
This is how TMN® works.
This is why TMN® was born: because no educational space in my entire life ever offered me this kind of freedom, honesty, and dignity.
So we built it.
And for the first time, we can finally be ourselves; fully, loudly, unapologetically.
By Pablo Herrera, Founder of TMN®
Read more blog post from Pablo Herrera 👉🏽 here.
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