Het Open Vizier · Child & Career edition
A newspaper about thinking without blinkers
★ MOVED
This edition has been incorporated under Future > Upbringing. A curated selection of seven articles, arranged by how it came to be, how the evolution could go, and how schooling should look. This page remains accessible as archive.
★ Child & Career edition
No subject teaches us more about who we are. A society that shapes its children wrongly loses itself — and what we give the child along the way determines the career they will later pursue. This edition gathers thirteen articles about what we pass on to the next generation in primal feeling, schooling, and professional perspective.
★ I · The primal feeling
Four articles that explain what the primal feeling is, how it works in every human being, and why today's education systematically destroys it before it can come to maturity.
Edition 3 · foundation
The principle that precedes all later layers. How the primal feeling arises, what it does, and why a person without contact with their primal feeling is a person-in-pieces.
Read the foundation article →Edition 3 · structure
Reptile, mammal, human — the three brain layers active in every person. How they cooperate, where they conflict, and why an upbringing that addresses only one of the three mutilates a person.
Read the structure →Edition 3 · framework
A person lives in more than three dimensions. An elaboration of the seven-dimensions framework through which the person, the organisation, and society can be understood together.
Read the framework →Manifesto
An open call to parents, teachers, administrators. Give the primal feeling back its place — in the classroom, in the family, in the company. A manifesto in a time when reason is stamped approved and feeling is avoided.
Read the manifesto →★ II · The schooling
Five articles about education — what it was in the twentieth century, what it became in the twenty-first, and what it should become for the child who inherits the world in 2050.
Edition 2 · education manifesto · [NL only]
The manifesto that wants to reopen the education debate. How manual work, intellectual work, and heart work belong together — and how their separation impoverishes us collectively.
Read the manifesto →Edition 3 · AI era
What a child must learn in a world where the machine can look up every fact and perform every task. How the primal feeling and the human scale demand more education, not less.
Read about AI education →Edition 2 · the price · [NL only]
What a child costs who is truly allowed to flourish — in time, in attention, in money, in patience. And why a society unwilling to pay this price pays far more in the end.
Read about the price →Edition 2 · choice · [NL only]
Parents, teachers, inspectors, and administrators must make a choice. The same choice that society as a whole keeps pushing aside. Here the choice, crystal-clear.
Read the choice →Edition 2 · selection system · [NL only]
How a modern government can steer a selection system that does not punish but strengthens. Resilience as goal, selection as instrument, the child as starting point.
Read about selection →★ III · The future picture
Four articles that hold up a mirror. What we actually do to our children, what a child's hunger teaches us, and how we ourselves became what we are — as a blueprint for who they will become and what career they will pursue.
Edition 3 · mirror
An honest account of what a child in 2026 experiences daily in avoidable harm. Not the exceptions, not the extremes — the average day.
Read the mirror →Edition 3 · the cry
The sentence being spoken again — and the sentence returning across all of Europe. How a prosperous continent still lets children go hungry, and what that tells us about our priorities.
Read the cry →Edition 3 · retrospective
Looking back to think forward. A review of what the post-war generations did and did not pass on — and which precious elements were lost in the transfer.
Read the retrospective →Edition 2 · self-portrait · [NL only]
A personal self-portrait of the author — what shaped him, which parents, which teachers, which landscape. As a blueprint for what today's children see ahead of them.
Read the self-portrait →★ IV · The career
Three articles that bridge the primal feeling from group I and working life. How a CEO leads with their primal feeling, how the primal feeling operates in professional practice, and why communication between primal feelings is often the most important working tool.
Edition 4 · CEO perspective
The key article for the career side of this edition. A good CEO leads from their primal feeling, not from the fear of the rational judgement of their surroundings. What that looks like, and what it means for the company and the employee.
Read about the CEO →Edition 3 · professional practice
Concrete and sharp: how the primal feeling plays out in six different professions — from the doctor to the teacher, from the entrepreneur to the craftsman. The primal feeling is no abstract concept; it is a daily tool.
Read about professional practice →Edition 3 · communication
Two people working together communicate not only through words — but also through their primal feelings. What that means in a team, in a negotiation, in a family. And why poor communication is almost always failed primal-feeling communication.
Read about communication →For parents and grandparents: this is not a critique of your upbringing. It is a toolkit for the conversation with your children and grandchildren about what they will remember later.
For teachers, school governors, and education inspectors: no plea here against existing education, but an invitation to bring in the unmeasurable layers — primal feeling, three brain layers, seven dimensions.
For policymakers: the twentieth century treated children as brains to be filled with facts. The twenty-first century demands a completely different approach. Here the first contours.
For employers and HR professionals: a person's career begins in childhood. Those who take the primal feeling of their employees seriously find more productive, healthier, and more sustainable work. Here the career perspective on the child — and on oneself.