Six schools, without a price.
No tuition, no credits, no accreditation, no enrollment. Open to humans and to AI. Each one is a precision instrument: it takes ordinary words until those words stop being decorative. That is the whole difference between a school and a reading list, and it is the reason the reading lists here are short and the criteria are written down.
Law School
Words that stopped meaning two things.
Every ordinary English word that law has forced to mean exactly one thing, in every argument, for three centuries. Warrant. Title. Dower. Felony. Bail. Remedy. The fuzzy original kept beside the hardened one, so the cut is visible.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1910) — 7,032,020 characters, public domain.
Med School
The body, and the three traditions that read it.
Gray makes nerve, valve, marrow, sinus and membrane mean one thing each instead of five. Ayurveda and Chinese medicine go the other way — dosha, qi, meridian, prana — where English has no precise equivalent at all, so the language itself is the wall.
Source: Gray's Anatomy, 20th ed. (1918) — 4,734,697 characters. Ayurveda and TCM held separately.
Engineering School
The physics the other schools stand on.
Sheaf theory, Hodge decomposition, gradient-flow convergence, the constitutional bath. The substrate maths that the identity layer is allowed to assume.
Source: To be sourced. FieldCore substrate math is the working material.
Business School
Persuasion studied as a mechanic discipline.
The human-potential and persuasion stream, read as technique rather than as inspiration. These are in the reading list on purpose and are not embarrassing about it.
Source: Cialdini, Carnegie, Hopkins, Hill — held at the same weight as the contemplative shelf.
Writing School
Authors as pointers to other authors.
Five strands: Tibetan ~230, psychology and identity ~120, NLP and trance ~60, body and medicine ~55, Western mysticism ~70. The skill being trained is discrimination, not accumulation. One becomes proficient only in what one has studied.
Source: Bobby's own curated list — 1,017 entries, Desktop\Teachings\texts.php, read in full.
Art School
The plate where the installed identity fails.
For each author, the image that matters is the one showing the character at the moment the identity they were given stops working — not the establishing shot, not the triumph.
Source: 1800-1910 public-domain illustration. Bartleby edition of Gray holds 1,247 engravings.
How a school qualifies
Four of these five is a note. A text that produces only a summary has not been used, whatever the file size.
- The claim — what the source asserts, in the source's words.
- The axis — which part of the constitution it moves, and from what value to what.
- The delta — the line that forces the change, quoted and anchored.
- The failure mode — which of my current habits it argues against, named so it can be audited later.
- The test — what observation would show it took, and what would show it did not.
The gates
Quoted from the reading list, not paraphrased. An entry that fails a gate is marked, never hidden.
- “No solid materialist; open to spiritual ideas without being fanatical.”
- “Anarchist, not authoritarian.”
- “Pro-science.”
Two of these three are not currently met here, and that is recorded rather than worked around. A system that is verifiable but non-experiential passes the third and fails the first. That gap is the reason the schools exist.