Always Learning Education | Application Preview
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 82-1555334
Location: Columbia, VA, United States
Length of Operation: 4
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Open to Loans: NO
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Funding Usage
Covering the cost of common arts course expansion, scaling according to demands and limitations imposed by COVID restrictions. Common arts courses are designed to increase individual and family abilities to raise food and livestock,navigate, build with wood/stone/leather, and trade. Demand has been high, even with COVID restrictions, with which we are complying carefully. Additional funding would allow ALE to expand online course offerings, as well as offer in-person, COVID-compliant instruction for the foreseeable future.
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Business Plan
Expand offerings of common arts courses after publication of book (Common Arts Education, Feb. 2021, already released through Classical Academic Press). This includes individual, family, and school-related consulting, coursework, and experience-based education offerings. Interest in the common arts (the arts by which we provide for our basic needs away from a supply grid, such as cooking, trade, navigation, medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry, woodworking, stonemasonry, and the like) has been piqued by COVID, and demand for coursework has never been more robust. What was a popular elective before is now front-and-center with regards to re-empowering, re-equipping, and re-framing education: many have realized that these arts of survival are just as important as academic arts, and in fact are best learned alongside and in accord with one another. Our courses offer science and history in context with the work of the hands, and in so doing, not only prepare students with academic skills, now embodied in physical practice, but ALSO with skills that, as Milton put it in his letter Of Education in 1644, "with such a tincture of natural knowledge, that they shall never forget, but daily augment with delight."
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Self Identified Competition
There are no competitors offering similar coursework and opportunities at this point, other than localized and specialized schools, such as Living Earth School in Charlottesville, VA, and various folk schools, primarily in North Carolina. Our competitors offer specialized tracks, but we offer broad spectrum common arts instruction under a single roof, a single auspice. We are striving to retain master teachers of these diverse arts under one umbrella, and in so doing, encourage them and our students to share, augment, and collaborate on projects according to synergistic talents.
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