“Touchstones classes have discussions that we run, that help us feel good about ourselves, get us to think about what’s important to us, help us work together as a group and listen to other kids’ opinions even when we don’t agree or even don’t like them— the kids I mean. But we respect them for saying what they think, and we get to say our ideas and why we believe them. These classes really make you think hard. By the end of the year, the teacher was just another person in the discussion.”   

— High school student (Albuquerque, New Mexico).

SEMINAR isn’t like other classes. First, because your teachers are some of the most famous and influential authors, thinkers, leaders, painters, scientists, musicians, and mathematicians who ever lived. Second, because they are usually dead. And since they aren’t there to explain their works, no one in the room will have the final, or right, answer to questions about their books or paintings or songs or ideas. So it’s up to all of us to work together to discover things we might never discover on our own…

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