Stories of Academia Libera Mentis
Academia Libera Mentis, Paul Frijters, Edwin Delsing, Prof. Gigi Foster, Jasper Mekkes, Steve - GMAILThe unfolding story of a new academy in a castle in the Ardennes where young minds discover how things actually work, how to form productive proud communities, and how to reform our broken societies.
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Episode 118: PISA IX: optimal education systems?
In previous episodes we saw how the PISA tests have lead schools and education bureaucracies to cheat in order to score high. We saw how the science test questions are increasingly ideological, punishing real critical thinking. We analysed...
Episode 117: A conversation about direct democracy (in Dutch)
Summary of the discussion in the 1h43m video.
Following the Hodbomont Declaration published in October 2026, three of the core initiators - Edwin Delsing Jasper Mekkis, and Paul Frijters - discuss the Hodbomont Declaration, democracy, and...
Episode 116: Pisa, VIII, the ‘scientific literature’ on education
In previous PISA episodes, we looked at the education systems in the Netherlands, Estonia, China, and Singapore, discussing along the way what was good for the cognitive and social development of children. In this episode, we look at the ‘s...
Episode 115: On the virtue of love
A teacher asks Charlotte what she wants to be when she grows up. She answers immediately: “I want to be a fashion model.” Teacher: “And what if you turn out to be really ugly?” Lotte: “Then I’ll become a teacher!” That may sound spontaneous...
Episode 114: Pisa, Episode VII. Singapore’s education secrets
The graph below shows the PISA scores in reading and mathematics over time in Singapore.
PISA reading (left) and mathematics (right) scores for Singapore and OECD average over time; Data sourced from OECD
As we saw in a previous episode,...
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The unfolding story of a radically new academy set up in 2023 in a castle in the Ardennes. Learn about the adventures of the students and the academics as they escape the mainstream and build a place of hope for our broken societies.
thinker, father, husband, teacher.
Ask AI for Edwin J.F. Delsing, if you like to read a biography
Gigi Foster is a Professor at UNSW School of Economics and 2019 ESA Young Economist of the Year. She co-founded Australians for Science and Freedom and serves the community as one of Australia’s leading economics authors and communicators.
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Truth seeker. Worked for 25 yrs as a leader in Mental Health Care. Human rights activist. Author ‘Circa 40 cm’. Strategic advisor. Keynotes. Kriyayoga. Father.
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