Acknowledgements

Manifesto 25 was never meant to be a solitary project. From its earliest drafts to this companion book, it has been shaped by conversations, critiques, encouragement, and acts of generosity from friends and colleagues around the world. I am grateful to everyone who lent their voice and challenged me to think more deeply about what education could (and should) become.

I would like to thank Gustavo Andrade, Chris Bagley, Constanze Beyer, Paola Boccia, Edwin De Bree, Vivian Breucker, Alexandra Castro Ferrada, María Mercedes Civarolo, Cristóbal Cobo, Antonio L. Delgado Pérez, Claudia Dikmans, Albus Duc Hoang, Kristina House, Silvia Enriquez, Tomas C. Ferber, Richard Fransham, Gustavo Garcia Lutz, Peter Gray, Christel Hartkamp, Pekka Ihanainen, Marcel Kampman, Bob Kartous, Kateřina Kolínková, Kamila Koutná, Florian Kretzschmar, Nicola Kriesel, Luis R. Lara, Diego Leal, Carlos Lizárraga Celaya, María Cristina Martínez-Bravo, Juraj Mazák, Alejandra Mendoza Garza, Farid Mokhtar Noriega, María Mercedes Moravec, Daniel Navarrete, Varlei Xavier Nogueira, Alejandro Núñez Urquijo, Hugo Pardo Kuklinski, Alejandro Pisanty, Lucas Potenza, Noemi Pulido, Luis Napoleón Quintanilla, Dinant Roode, Javier José Simon, Alison Snieckus, Max Ugaz, Paloma Valdivia Vizarreta, David Vidal, Evangelos Vlachakis, Tim Weinert, Monika Wernz, and Alex Wiedemann.

This book carries your fingerprints. It is stronger, sharper, and more hopeful because of the ideas, doubts, and courage you shared with me. Thank you for walking alongside me in imagining education’s future. A very special thanks as well to Martine Eyzenga, who brought the book to life visually and gave its ideas a home on the page.

Finally, I want to thank you, the reader. The future is not yet written, and Manifesto 25 is not a finished script but an invitation to be part of a shared vision and language for building new futures. What happens next depends on how you act, question, and create in your own context. This manifesto will continue to evolve as you make it your own: challenging it, reshaping it, and carrying it into places I could never imagine alone. The work of reclaiming education belongs to all of us, and its story unfolds through what you choose to do with it.