Humane Education

Humane Education is a field of study with the goal of preparing people to be able to identify
any kind of problems in the world and create solutions that enable people, animals, and
nature to live the healthiest life possible.

Humane education is the best hope for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world. For example:
People create institutions like human rights institutions. Human rights are institutions established
by the government to regulate all human needs, including education, food needs, and others.

Humane education is based on the premise that if we comprehensively transform the root
systems that underlies all other societal systems – schooling – we can prepare generations of
students to find answers to the challenges we face. It helps students put core values of
kindness, compassion, generosity, responsibility, and integrity into practice in a complex,
globalized world in which even our small daily choices affect people, animals, and ecosystems
across the planet. It also cultivates critical, systems, strategic, and creative thinking.

Humane education is itself humane: engaging, inspiring, meaningful, and relevant to students’
lives and futures. Humane education is the best hope for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.