About Emile's Turbine

Students first, teachers always

The name Emile's Turbine is derived from the book Emile by JJ Rousseau and the title of a book, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange may be a title, but it is also a provocation: education without humanity is destructive which reduces humans to products. Emile is a treatise on student-centered teaching which acknowledges the inviolate humanity in education, viewing the act of teaching as a "turning of the soul." Combined with a wind turbine, a mechanical means to convert wind to energy, Emile's Turbine is a metaphor for the process-product tension that underlies 21st century education which could easily render humans as products if educators fail to remember students first, teachers always.