Nullam Mauris is a secluded utopian community in Northern California that values “environmental sustainability” as the most fundamental social belief. The general core values of this utopian society are love, socially beneficence, diligence, and freedom while maintaining self-sustainability in an eco-friendly way. Regarding those core values, the community promises free education for residents. Education and society have a direct relationship since “raising sufficient number of efficient people for more prosperous society is the duty of education and educational institutions which have certain functions in the community” (Turkkahraman 38). Thus, categorized by kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, and university/college, …show more content…
High school education is to prepare students for the “real world” so that students can discover their academic or career interests for their future. Therefore, although students are required to learn basic skills and knowledge in diverse fields of study up until the middle school, the high school education in Nullam Mauris is more based on each student’s career interests and preferences. Students can themselves choose their fields of study as their grade levels get higher. Specifically, Nullam Mauris high school curricula can be divided into two groups, which are freshman and sophomore year education versus junior and senior year education. The main difference between two groups of curricula is that freshmen and sophomores continue to learn basic skills and knowledge while juniors and seniors would get more career-based education by requiring them to take elective courses to prepare them for the future. Also, instead of simply measuring students’ ability based on standardized tests, teachers would determine each student’s performance. Rather than just giving the letter grades on each assignment, teachers would give a comment and feedback on students’ works. This feedback mechanism, instead of the letter grading system with standardized tests, would be more helpful for students in learning because …show more content…
By developing and cultivating people’s both mental and physical powers, Nullam Maruis provides them “true pleasure, some being pleasures of the mind and others pleasures of body” (More 16). From schools, students construct their own personalities, beliefs, values so that each individual holds different perspectives and standards of livings. These diverse perspectives and attitudes would, ultimately, form “culture” of the society. Thus, education is important in a way that it cultivates human possibilities by “expanding the terrain of cultivation” (Rothstein 23). That is, education guides people with “the entire complex of ideas and behaviors that give shape to the inchoate world, creating manners and mores and social relations” (Rothstein 23). Also, high school curriculum contains many components that inspire students to have creative thinking and ideas. Since “periodical variety is a necessity of the body and of the soul, a necessity in all nature” (Fourier 199), it is important to help students to increase their creativity. In addition, physical education in high school teaches students on how to maintain healthy lives and perform physically active lifestyle. Utopians believe that health “as the foundation of all the other pleasures, since by itself alone it can make life peaceful and desirable, whereas without it