ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes the authors' own alternative vision of K–12 education with guidelines that are designed to grant education its lost agency and to restore students' humanity. These guidelines are described in this chapter mostly in general and abstract terms. A central tenet in the chapter is that K–12 education should be considered a distinct and protected social sphere with its own agency. This status will shield it against threats while at the same time ensure it is open to the world. The chapter also proposes as an educational guideline linked to this new status: the notion of "we are all human beings" as a means to recenter education around students' humanity and humankind as a whole. It introduces the metaphor of "the human territory" to propose an adventurous character for education, a character that enables and encourages educators and students to imagine alternative ways of life and to envision a world that does not currently exist.
