Our learning process is rooted in the stories we tell and reimagine. Our learning spaces serve as metaphors for the world our children will create. In this section, we'll offer a critique of the metaphors of the current system and a method for educators to create their own vibrant learning spaces and activities. This includes both the way we conceive of a classroom and the processes therein.

We begin with a critique of the broader culture that our educational system has brought us, the underlying story that has alienated us from our fellow beings, human and non‐human, and from the planet itself. This is an educational problem, for it is how we educate our children that gives them the story in the first place. And it is only by reimagining education that they might discover a new story. This story is given by the metaphors that guide the formation of a classroom. It is reimagined only when we transform those metaphors and enter into a learning process that engages the whole person, the whole community, the whole world.