The provided text is an excerpt from a 2025 Medium article by Greg Twemlow titled, "Why I Designed a Sovereign Compact for Education," which proposes a complete overhaul of the current education system. Twemlow argues that the architecture of learning must be rebuilt to counter the failures of traditional schooling, which prioritises compliance and synchronous learning over genuine understanding. The proposed solution is the Sovereign Compact for Education™, a framework centred on Seven Declarations that redefine learning as authorship, reflection, and evidence-based accountability. The core mechanisms for achieving this are the Sovereign Ethics Blueprint (SEB), which formalises personal and institutional values, and the Sovereign Impact Deliverables (SID), which require learners to produce visible, authored evidence of their integrity and growth. Ultimately, the Compact seeks to restore trust by making coherence between belief and behaviour the new standard of excellence, moving away from grades and imposed metrics. Read the article.