The Human Knowledge Curriculum is a dependency-driven, lifelong answer to the question: What should an educated person know? It is not a university degree. It is a public map for self-education from ordinary literacy and numeracy to advanced disciplinary study, integrative judgment, and original inquiry.
Important
The curriculum is a carefully specified educational proposal, not a credential or a guarantee of mastery after fixed hours. Clinical, legal, hazardous, and professionally regulated work requires qualified supervision and local authorization.
| Scope | Count |
|---|---|
| Disciplines | 39 |
| Knowledge units | 634 |
| Core units | 544 |
| Extension units | 90 |
| Complete project briefs | 156 |
| Unit-level assessments | 634 |
| Planned Core hours | 14,460 |
| Planned Extension hours | 6,394 |
| Planned full-curriculum hours | 20,854 |
| Specializations | 12 |
| Canonical discipline connections | 741 |
Every unit has a stable ID, difficulty, Core or Extension status, exact prerequisites, lessons, observable outcomes, misconceptions, mastery checks, resources, terminology, project contribution, assessment, time budget, and review plan.
- Read the curriculum overview.
- Choose and operate a route with the learner guide.
- Inspect the global dependency graph.
- Choose the 10-, 15-, or 20-year pathway.
- Open a discipline portal from the discipline index.
- Use the connection atlas for interdisciplinary work.
Curriculum/
├── README.md public curriculum index
├── global-graph.md cross-domain dependency backbone
├── pathways.md 10-, 15-, and 20-year routes
├── specializations.md twelve Extension paths
├── connection-atlas.md all 741 discipline pairs
└── <Discipline>/
├── README.md twelve-section subject portal
├── roadmap.md knowledge graph and prerequisites
├── syllabus.md lessons, outcomes, misconceptions, mastery
├── resources.md edition-specific resources
├── glossary.md unit terminology
├── projects.md four project scales
├── assessment.md unit-level mastery evidence
├── schedule.md hours and review allocation
└── connections.md links to all other disciplines
In prose: the root explains the project; global files define common architecture and routes; each discipline portal joins eight detailed learning artifacts through the same stable unit IDs; the atlas supplies one canonical explanation for every pair of disciplines.
- Editorial and evidence policy
- Empirical evaluation protocol
- Standards and source frameworks
- Validation report
- Publication checklist
- Contributing
The structural validators can establish completeness and internal consistency. They cannot establish real-world learning effectiveness, assessment validity, resource accessibility, or universal hour requirements. Those questions require the transparent learner evidence described in the evaluation protocol.
| Phase | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Acyclic global and disciplinary knowledge graph |
| 2 | Complete lessons, outcomes, misconceptions, and mastery checks |
| 3 | Resources and glossaries mapped to every unit |
| 4 | Projects and criterion-referenced assessments |
| 5 | Unit hours, spaced review, lifelong pathways, and specializations |
| 6 | Public navigation, cross-disciplinary atlas, editorial governance, accessibility, and evaluation |