Gabriel Lanyi is a writer living in Jerusalem. Early on he was booked as a passenger on a multilingual educational journey across three continents, which began in Romania, continued in Israel, and ended in the US. His trip landed him at the juncture between liberal arts and high-tech, where he set up shop as a writer/editor/translator of technical and academic literature, with occasional forays into fiction. All along, he continued to closely watch the curriculums our education systems devised for the younger generations, and every now and then he tested his own teaching on unsuspecting students. Then he discovered Uscolia and became one of a handful of people to hear a first-hand account of the legendary Uscolian studios – where generations of creative youths have achieved effective learning without teaching—from one of the few outsiders who had the privilege of visiting them in person. He subsequently acquired hands-on experience applying some of the Uscolian principles, which he describes in detail in his latest book.
