When establishing a school in the colony, a few things need to be taken into account.
1. Humans are happiest living in families. It is a unit of humans. Singles are extremely unhappy and are constantly looking for mates. Even two people are incomplete without children. Parents with children are happiest. Typically, parents spend only a limited time with their children. They live together, sleep in separate beds, and have food together. Parents help and teach kids basic skills such as eating, hygiene, dressing up, and safety skills. They discuss things. The parents guide children in their development: which classes to take, how to solve problems with relationships in school, etc. They play together, explore new things, exercise, etc. Five days per week the parents send kids to school for the day for about 5-8 hours per day depending on age. On weekends family spends more time together and kids may have special activities and classes which are more personally fit than school, which is more standardized. Children often leave their parents' house at the age of about 17. The age depends on culture. Some children never leave parents. In Hindu culture, kids become independent and marry, but families often live nearby in adjacent apartments in a large clan house. In other cultures, kids move away from their parents, often far.
Boarding schools are also sometimes used, but this is atypical and very often children are unhappy. Boarding schools provide a sense of surrogate families, but these are often flawed. Parents would also miss their kids. So, for the school at the colony, having parents living with children would be ideal. Typically human fathers can leave the families for some time up to 2 weeks without much harm. Human mothers are sufficient to keep the family happy for that time. Longer absence of a father would normally be stressful.
2. People are often nostalgic for their homes, countries, food and nature. Smells are particularly important for memories of home. Families moving to the colony have to have a clear understanding and consciously volunteer for the sacrifice, understanding the rationale and options for return or leaving the colony for other planets. Misunderstanding in the terms of joining the company or involuntary imprisonment at the colony would be devastating for the family and the colony's community.
3. The spirit of voluntary work for the salvation of humanity is essential for the success of the colony. People would have to be proud for being chosen and believe in the value of their work. They would have to understand that the move was a good bargain for them in terms of their future and future of their children.
4. Humans, especially children would need proper conditions for physical development. Food, gravity, air, and electromagnetic fields need to be correct for physical development.
5. For compatibility, at initial stages, it may be good to bring English speaking people first. People from different human cultures and languages may (or may not) have problems working together. In our scientific labs, especially in the West, people from many cultures work together without much problem, but people of similar cultures are much closer to each other and more efficient, at least initially. More importantly, are commonality of ideas, beliefs and passions. I would suggest that lightworkers may be a good basis on which the company can be built. Scientists, teachers and medical doctors may be also a good basis. Many lightworkers are healers, many are teachers and some are scientists.
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Chapter 7