Mission and Vision

Our Vision

Our current education system is in a crisis that has been many years in the making. It's often been said that were you to travel one hundred years into the past the world would be largely unrecognisable with one exception: the schools. From mental health problems to a lack of real world skills, the traditional approach might have been effective at preparing students for monotonous factory work, but it's clearly failing a generation in the present.

We want to reimagine education from the ground up. We believe that rather than propelling us forward, traditional approaches are holding us back. We want to create an accessible, equitable education that meets the actual needs of children not just in the here and now, but many years after they have graduated. This is OTO's purpose.

“Educaction,” Socrates told, “is the kindling of a flame not the filling of a vessel.” Indeed, the root of the work education comes from the Latin, educare, meaning to “bring out” or “lead forth”. We want to return to education's true meaning. An education that takes individual learners and asks: “how can we bring out the best in them?”