We Failed at Building an Effective Education System — And Why Able Is an Alternative for the Future

By Gui Brotto, Founder of Able

There is something uncomfortable we all know but rarely say out loud:

Our education system has failed. Not because it didn’t teach math or science — but because it didn’t teach humanity.

Over the last 15 years of my life, I’ve seen things that broke my heart, not because they were extreme, but because they were normal.

I saw people with engineering degrees — brilliant minds — designing gas chambers.

I met owners of vegan restaurants who claim to protect animals, yet buy cashew nuts harvested through modern slavery.

I watched founders of “ethical social enterprises” lie about the origin of their products.

I saw CEOs publicly speak about compassion and sustainability, then scream at their employees behind closed doors.

And what shocked me most was not the hypocrisy —

but the realization that these people weren’t “bad.”

They were simply products of an education system that teaches intelligence without wisdom, success without conscience, and competition without compassion.

We taught them how to build companies, but not how to build character.

We taught them how to win, but not how to care.

We taught them how to grow the mind — and forgot the heart entirely.

And the result?

A society overflowing with cleverness but starving for consciousness.

The Real Problem: We Educated for Survival, Not for Meaning

Traditional education was built for factories, not for the future.

It trains children to obey, repeat, perform, and compete — the perfect ingredients for creating high-functioning adults who can succeed in a sick society… without ever questioning it.

When success becomes the only metric,

empathy dies, truth bends, and collaboration collapses.

This is why highly educated people can still contribute to destruction.

Not because they lack intelligence —

but because they never learned awareness, integrity, responsibility, and connection.

Our world doesn’t need more degrees.

It needs better humans.

Why Able Exists: To Teach What Schools Forgot

I created Able because I believe we still have time to repair the story.

Not by fighting the old system —

but by building a new one rooted in truth, connection, and regeneration.

Able teaches the skills that will shape the next century:

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Mindful Social-Emotional Learning

Kids learn self-awareness, empathy, resilience, and the ability to sit with discomfort instead of running from it.

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Regenerative Project-Based Learning

They solve real problems — building, creating, planting, restoring — and understanding their impact on the planet and community.

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Holistic Nature-Based Education

Nature becomes the teacher: rivers, forests, mountains, storms, sunlight.

Kids reconnect to what is real.

To what is alive.

To what cannot be faked.

At Able, children don’t learn to compete for limited resources.

They learn to collaborate to create new ones.

They don’t learn to win against others.

They learn to win with others.

Because the future will not belong to those who dominate —

but to those who can imagine, regenerate, and unite.

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The Most Important Lesson: Collaboration Over Competition

The world our children will inherit is interconnected, not isolated.

Climate, AI, culture, economics — everything is woven together.

Yet schools still teach “me versus you.”

Able teaches “we.”

Competition builds winners.

Collaboration builds civilizations.

Children who learn to collaborate grow into adults who:

✔ don’t build gas chambers — they dismantle them

✔ don’t hide slavery — they end it

✔ don’t lie about impact — they create it

✔ don’t shout at employees — they lift them

Collaboration is not just a skill.

It is a moral compass.

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Able Is Not Just a Camp. It’s a New Path for Humanity.

Every week in our camps, I witness it:

Kids who arrive shy and closed, leave confident, awake, and connected.

Kids who were afraid of nature, learn to love it.

Kids who were afraid of trying, learn to fall and rise again.

Kids who never worked in teams, begin building things together effortlessly.

They return home clearer, calmer, more capable —

not because we filled them with information,

but because we gave them real experiences that shape identity.

Able is not ahead of time —

it is simply aligned with what the world is now asking for.

Parents feel it.

Kids feel it.

The planet is demanding it.

And we are just getting started.

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To the Parents Reading This

If you want your child to succeed in exams, any school can do that.

If you want your child to succeed in life —

to grow with awareness, courage, kindness, creativity, and critical thinking —

then Able is here to walk with you.

Because the future won’t be changed by perfect students.

It will be changed by awake human beings.