Education Empowered
A Holistic Blueprint for Building Better Schools and a Better World
A big-picture examination of the evolution of education that reveals the serious failures of modern mainstream schooling and presents a compelling vision for better schools and a better future.
Since the dawn of humanity, the spark of education has lit the fire of “progress.” With our unique ability to learn, we have conquered the animal kingdom, harnessed the power of electricity, and deciphered the secrets of the atom.
Yet, for all of this progress, we find ourselves facing a troubling future—from rising global unrest and hopelessness to the specter of deepening inequality to the potential existential threats of climate change and artificial intelligence.
Our schools are ideally positioned at the intersection of our social, political, economic, and personal aspirations to address these challenges. But they have struggled for generations to even deliver on the three Rs—let alone prepare children to be global changemakers.
In Education Empowered, Sankalpa Academy founder Srinivas Jallepalli exposes the risks of the factory-style model of education that has failed to promote both individual as well as collective well-being. Drawing from science, history, and philosophy, this book puts forth a deeply researched blueprint for a revolutionary educational paradigm that:
- Reconnects us to our biological origins and the way our brains learn
- Anchors the growth experiences on a bedrock of relationships and purpose
- Embraces a holistic approach that caters to the physical, mental, and emotional needs of the whole child
- Pursues individual and collective well-being and fulfillment through meaningful engagement and transferable skills
In the tradition of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down, this provocative and insightful book asks and answers the big questions of humanity and shows us how educators, parents, and policymakers can forge a better future.
Srinivas Jallepalli
Srinivas Jallepalli founded Sankalpa Academy, a growth mindset school created to offer gifted-level education to all children. He is also the cofounder of Higher Orbit Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes educational equity. Jallepalli has an abiding passion for synthesizing the latest research findings in child development and understanding the challenges preventing us from bringing this research to our schools.
As an engineer and statistician, he has worked at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories, Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, and NXP. He is currently a technical director at NXP Semiconductors. Jallepalli holds four US patents and has contributed to more than fifty papers in IEEE conferences and refereed journals. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.