May 31 • Born Curious
Born from Three Perspectives Rarely Found in One Founder
Born Curious was born from three perspectives that are rarely found together in a single founder.
Most educational programmes are built by academics, or by entrepreneurs who see a market, or by parents who want something better for their own children. Born Curious sits at the intersection of all three — which is exactly why it is uniquely positioned to lead this movement.
As an experienced senior school leader and qualified Headteacher, I watched children arrive at school bursting with questions, imagination and wonder.
I also watched how easily those qualities became overshadowed by the pressure to produce correct answers, meet targets and seek approval.
I understood from the inside how educational systems — despite the best intentions — can gradually train curiosity out of children. Not through malice. Not through indifference. But through the relentless pressure of a system designed to measure compliance rather than cultivate potential.
I didn't leave education because I stopped believing in children. I left because I believed in them too much to accept what the system was asking them to become.
As an Adult Educator, I now work with adults rebuilding skills they should never have lost: confidence, creativity, resilience and the courage to trust their own thinking.
The adults who struggle most are rarely the least capable. They are often the sharpest people in the room — but they learned early that getting things wrong was dangerous.
These patterns began in childhood.
Sitting with adults who are unlearning a decade of self-doubt — who are relearning how to take a risk, voice an idea, or trust their own judgement — made one thing crystal clear to me: the cost of losing curiosity early is paid for a lifetime.
If we can protect curiosity in childhood, we may never need to rebuild it in adulthood. That is the mission.
As a mother to four-year-old twin girls, I experience curiosity in its purest, most unfiltered form every single day.
The relentless questions. The imaginative play. The determination to figure things out. The joy of discovering something new.
Watching my daughters learn has reminded me that children do not need to be taught curiosity — they need the space, the encouragement and the environment to keep it.
They arrived curious. They will stay curious — if we let them.
These three perspectives — educational leadership, adult learning and everyday parenting — form the foundation of why Born Curious exists and why it is uniquely positioned to lead this movement.
I have seen what happens when curiosity is suppressed — in the children who stop asking questions, and in the adults who never got them back.
I have seen what is possible when curiosity is protected — in the children who arrive at school as scientists and artists and inventors, and in the adults who rediscover that they are remarkable when given permission to be.
Born Curious is the organisation I wish had existed when I was a school leader. And it is the organisation I am building now — for my daughters, for your children, and for every family who knows that something needs to change.
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Mum of twin girls | Founder of Born Curious | Raising curious, creative, AI-proof kids who think big & change the world 🌍 Born curious. Stay curious.
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