About Us
Meet the founders
Hi, we’re Phuong and Victor, parents of three. Watching our children grow, we asked ourselves: can schools really prepare them for the new AI-driven world we’re entering?
That’s why we’re on a mission to explore new and different ways to educate children for a changing world – and we’re exploring it in public.
We don’t have all the answers and we won’t pretend to.
Genuine transformation doesn’t come from a fixed playbook. It comes from curiosity, real-world feedback and the courage to try new things.
We believe the best solutions aren't found in isolation. We're building something exciting in the open and you're invited to be part of it.
A Message from the Founder
So it's been almost three decades since I walked out of my primary school gates for the very last time. Now, as I watch my own kids begin their schooling journey, I’ve been struck by a confronting realisation: that while the world has changed beyond recognition in those 30 years, school life looks much the same.
We’re still using a system built 150 years ago to create factory workers for an industrial era that doesn't exist anymore. The world has since moved on through the Information Age and we’re now entering the Intelligence Age, where AI can already outperform us in so many ways. AI has made me ask: what does it mean to be human in this new era? And what kind of a future are my kids walking into?
As a parent, these questions fill me with equal parts excitement and fear as I carry the weight of preparing my kids for a world we don’t yet understand.
And after a lot of thinking, I’ve come to realise that the best way to prepare them for an unknown future is not to predict what the future will look like but to help them understand who they are and equip them with the skills to thrive in any world they find themselves in.
Philosopher John Dewey once wrote that education is how life renews itself. It’s the way ideas and practices pass on through generations to constantly reweave the social fabric. This definition of education feels true to me. But if education is a means by which society renews itself, then why does it feel like the education system we have now is trying to preserve the past?
There’s never been a more important time to reimagine what education can be. With rapid advances in technology and new learning models popping up around the world, I realised maybe I don’t need to have all the answers before starting. I don’t need to fully reject what exists either. I just need to be willing to ask myself a courageous question:
If I could create a school that could be anything I wanted it to be, what would it look like?
It would be a school that was genuinely child-led. Not chaotic or directionless but driven by curiosity instead of compliance. It would be a school that protects each child’s unique spark instead of moulding them into a single standard. It would be a school that lets children sit in the space between the problem and the solution, long enough to wrestle with it.
Because that space… that uncomfortable, uncertain space…that’s where innovation lives. That’s where resilience is built. That’s where confidence and purpose are born.
The children who’ll thrive in the future won’t be the ones who memorised the best. They’ll be the ones who can sit with uncertainty; question assumptions; adapt; create; fall and get back up again.
I don’t want our kids to spend thirteen plus years in school only to graduate and ask, “What now?”—as I once did and maybe you did too.
Instead, I want them to finish school knowing:
- who they are
- what they value, and
- what they’re capable of.
I want them setting audacious goals, testing ideas, failing safely and contributing meaningfully. This is what I want from the education system.
And I haven’t yet found a place that brings all of this together for my kids yet. That’s why Changemaker Seed was born – to create a space for parents, educators, businesses, policy makers– anyone who’s invested in children’s education, to come together to sit in the space between the problem and the solution…for long enough to wrestle with it. To explore and reimagine what education can be.
So, if you’ve been feeling that quiet discomfort because you’re not quite happy with what schools are offering or if you’ve been thinking, ‘There has to be another way’…but you’re not sure what that way looks like…
You’re not alone. Join me.
Subscribe to this channel. Join our email list on our website. Reach out and tell me: what’s the one thing about school that you wish was different?
Warmest regards,
Phuong Chin
Founder, Changemaker Seed