Ida Rose Florez

The End of Education as We Know It

The End of Education as We Know It, Regenerative Learning for Complex Times is a powerful guide for those seeking to transform education into a model of collaboration, sustainability, and regeneration.

“A captivating must-read for anyone who is dissatisfied with the status quo of schools but not quite sure where to begin.“

~ Francesca Lopez, Ph.D., Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy and Professor of Education, Penn State University, College of Education

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Ida Rose Florez

The End of Education as We Know It

“A captivating must-read for anyone who is dissatisfied with the status quo of schools but not quite sure where to begin.“

~ Francesca Lopez, Ph.D., Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy and Professor of Education, Penn State University, College of Education

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The End of Education as We Know It

Regenerative Learning for Complex Times

People are born systems-thinkers. Education has the power to encourage our innate connection with the complex world, yet instead our schools focus on creating a workforce educated just enough to feed the capitalist workforce pipeline. The End of Education as We Know It is for people who want to create schools that teach how to live in harmony with each other, with Earth, and all Earth holds.

Readers will understand when and how to engage in disruptive actions, manage system tensions, support child and adult learning, and use these skills to design whole new schools. Far more than a call to education-reform-as-usual, Ida Rose Florez’s inspiring critique:

Provides tools to influence patterns that lead to change.
Gives readers specific skills for working in complex systems, whether with a group of children, a contentious school board, or state or provincial governments.
Helps readers reimagine schools as places where communities learn together.

This clarion call to action rings a bell for teachers, parents, grandparents, educators, and policymakers to challenge the outdated paradigm of coercion and exploitation that shapes our current schools. It’s time to build a new educational model for a resilient future.

“The End of Education as We Know It is both inspiring and practical. The author’s ability to explain complex processes in a way that is understandable to the reader is masterful. It should be required reading for every school administrator, politician, and teacher-education program in the country.“

~ Nanette (Sheri) Schonleber, Ph.D., Associate Professor Early Childhood Studies, Sonoma State University

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Education as The Mother System

Education is not merely one among many social institutions.

Education is the Mother System. It is unique because of its nearly universal profound influence on the first years of life. Ensuring children learn the patterns of society early means those patterns become the deeply rooted, unquestioned “just the way things are.” People learn what society expects about how to treat one another at school. People learn what society values at school. People learn what society says is vulgar or racist or mean (or not) at school.

Certainly, children learn values and expectations at home and in religious and other institutions. But the inherent purpose of education for the masses is for most of the population to internalize the assumptions and values of the society. We may all hold individual or family values, but at school, especially public school where nearly all North American residents are educated, students learn what is valued by society.

To care about schools is to care about society. Nearly every educator I know embraces their profession as noble. Teachers routinely push back against rules that constrain their freedom to teach well. If you are an educator, I ask you to push even further and join a vital group of people who sense the urgency of our time, people who value the Mother System as something more than a workforce pipeline. This book is about recognizing the vital role education plays in nurturing human capacity not only for individual success or corporate profit but for the benefit of all. A regenerative approach to learning takes the value of education to its rightful place: teaching the ways we, as a species, contribute to the continuation of life on Earth.

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“This is a radical book. The current educational system is a part of the problem; we need a new education which could be a part of the solution. Ida Rose Florez is a visionary writer, explaining how the present educational system has become outdated and dangerous, and then outlining a new direction for education which is fit for the future. All parents and teachers should read it!“

~ Satish Kumar, founder and president emeritus, Schumacher College and author, Elegant Simplicity

“Ida Rose Florez challenges those of us living under the spell of modernity to free ourselves and our children from the lethal limitations of complicated, reductionist, machine-based thinking–so prevalent in both schools and society. She offers insight and inspiration for a Great Turning towards an emergent, regenerative, systems-based way of thinking that honors the complexity and non-linearity of learning—and of life itself.”

~ Molly Brown, eco-philosopher, author of Growing Whole: Self-Realization for the Great Turning; co-author of Coming Back to Life; The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

“This work beautifully and brilliantly achieves its noble ambition: We must learn to see differently to create the new forms of education so desperately needed. In great detail, and with gentle, insistent clarity, Ida Rose illuminates the damaging impact of the mechanistic worldview. And of equal importance, she calls us to take responsibility for changing both our worldviews and how we do our work. The combination of explanation, evocation, and invocation is very powerful.”

~ Margaret J. Wheatley, author of 12 books from Leadership and the New Science (1992) to Restoring Sanity (2024)

“Ida Rose Florez challenges us to think about schools and education in ways that are unfamiliar to most. She introduces what to most of us is a new vocabulary for such thinking, to which we may feel some resistance. I urge you, experience and acknowledge the resistance, but don’t let it stop you.”

~ Peter Gray, Ph.D., Research Professor, Boston College and author, Free to Learn

“A captivating must-read for anyone who is dissatisfied with the status quo of schools but not quite sure where to begin. Ida Rose Florez provides readers with the necessary foundation for transformation toward healing and humanity at its core.”

~ Francesca Lopez, Ph.D., Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy and Professor of Education, Penn State University, College of Education

“The End of Education as We Know It grabs and keeps your attention with provocative, critical questions, and challenges you to consider and change your perspective and beliefs about education. Dr. Florez seamlessly weaves vivid and even humorous personal stories with clear, compelling descriptions of the neuroscience and systems concepts that undergird the re-visioning of education as regenerative learning. I highly recommend this guidebook/roadmap for educators, parents, community members, students of science and systems, and anyone else who is ready to be challenged, to learn and grow, and to take action.”

~ Allison Titcomb, Ph.D., Chief Impact Officer & Senior Vice President, Community Development at United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona

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