The Great Skills

The Great Books is a compelling idea, but how about a Great Books for the non-Western canon?

And the critical skills to arise from a Great Books education? Critical Thinking and Analysis. Communication. Maybe even the beginning of Self-Knowledge.

And let's add to that "The Great Skills":

1. Grow your own
2. Fix it when it's broken
3. Think your way through any problem (abstract what you know)
4. Cooperate with others
5. Fight

The first two may fall under the heading 'Manage your internal affairs (Keep a sound ship)'.
The last two may fall under the heading 'Manage your external affairs (Think like a citizen)'.
And the 3rd point -- "Think your way through any problem" -- bridges the internal and external.

Growing your own food as core of curriculum

For both the experiential value, systems immersion, and home ec benefits.

A school that grows its own food, including a landrace wheat vs. modern, high-yielding variety (study inputs, outputs, stocks...in systemic context). Bakes its own bread in wood-fired oven. Corn, too -- the staple of the Old World alongside the staple of the New World. Produce eggs. Grow all vegetables. Have a dairy cow/goat or two. Even raise chickens and ducks for meat.

Five years, from age 12-16. Begin with a reading intensive: catch everyone up so they can all ready fast and effectively. By age 16, most students should be ready for transfer to college early, if desired, or to transfer to high school (for socialization) and kick butt.

Five Kids, One Teacher. $20,000 per child per year. $70,000 budget for the school, from which would draw wage ($50,000) and expenses ($20,000).

Is there a way to do this nonprofit? Provide this level of attention and quality?