Explore

Having a lot of kids sit in the lecture class will be viewed at some point as an antiquated thing.

A conversation with Bill Gates on higher education. Much of what Gates touches on, including the necessity to intelligently bridge place-based, offline education with online tools, resources, and interactions, echoes Lore’s mission.

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What Facebook did for personal lives, we want to do for learning lives.

Lore founder and Explore publisher Joseph Cohen reflects on the rebranding of Coursekit and the broader mission.

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Introducing Explore

Welcome to Explore, a Lore project edited by Maria Popova.

When Benjamin Franklin founded the first subscription library in America, he had a vision for democratizing knowledge by making “the common tradesman and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries.” Access to knowledge, he believed, was the key to creativity, innovation, and success in life.

Today, the web is our library, with information more readily available than ever before. But finding the most interesting, most relevant, most meaningful information and synthesizing it into knowledge and insight is an increasingly challenging task, yet one of growing urgency and importance.

Explore embodies Lore’s aspiration to reshape education in the Information Age and aims to distill the wealth of information available to us today – online and off – into a portal of discovery for meaningful knowledge, powered by cross-disciplinary curiosity.

From TED talks to vintage maps to psychology studies to quotes from favorite books, and just about everything in between, Explore will guide you through the landscape of the mind as we explore the evolving architecture of knowledge together.

Enjoy and explore.