Old paradigm education produced workers that benefit the corporations they work for but neglected student’s souls and communities in the process. So what does a more nourishing education look like?

Between 1985 and 1996, Zoe Weil taught approximately 100,000 students about the problems we face and the solutions we can create. That experience deepened her passion for humane education and made her want to see comprehensive humane education grow and spread. The problem was that there were only a handful of people who were teaching about the interconnected problems of human oppression, rampant consumerism, animal abuse, and environmental destruction, and in order to solve global, systemic problems and create a world in which all of us can live peacefully and humanely, we needed a humane education movement in which all teachers were humane educators, all schools offered comprehensive humane education, and everyone was exposed to humane education in their lives. In 1996 the Institute for Humane Education (IHE) was created to train other people to be humane educators, and now the comprehensive humane education movement is spreading, thanks to all our graduates, students, and workshop participants.

Zoe is the author of Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life and the creator of a M.Ed program and certification in Humane Education.

With a world steeped in materialism, environmental destruction, and injustice, what can one individual possibly do to change it? While the present obstacles we face may seem overwhelming, Zoe Weil shows us that change doesn’t have to start with an army. It starts with you. Through her straightforward approaches to living a MOGO, or “most good,” life, she reveals that the true path to inner peace doesn’t require a retreat from the world. Rather, she offers powerful and practicable tools to face these global issues and improve both our planet and our personal lives.

Learn direct ways to become involved with the community, make better choices as consumers, and develop positive messages to live by, and discover that our simple decisions really can change the world. Most Good, Least Harm is the next step beyond ‘Green’ and a radically new way to empower the individual and motivate positive change.