Founder’s Message
Throughout my career, I have held to a single conviction: that the highest form of education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the cultivation of a mind capable of clarity, rigor, and creative synthesis. Across centuries, the passage from student to scholar has marked a profound intellectual threshold, defined not by credentials alone, but by the assumption of responsibility for one’s ideas.
In recent decades, however, that distinction has grown increasingly indistinct. The conditions under which students learn to test, shape, and publicly stand behind their work have weakened, even as academic signals and shortcuts have multiplied. Too often, genuine inquiry is either kept private and provisional – or rushed prematurely into forms that mimic scholarship without demanding its discipline.
What has been endangered is not talent, but formation: the slow, exacting process by which thought becomes accountable, expressive, and consequential.
I founded The Schola in response to that need.
Eva M Shin
Founder, The Schola
The Intellectual Ground of The Schola
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Principles
Learn more about Our PhilosophyA guide to our core beliefs and commitment to a different standard of scholarship.
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Foundation
Discover the meaning of Our NameAn exploration of our name, schola, and the deep philosophical roots that anchor our work.
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Horizon
Discover the Future of LearningAn examination of the enduring forms of understanding that define learning in a changing age.
Eva M Shin
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She founded The Schola and its publisher, Veritaum, in 2016. Her professional background spans management consulting, investment banking, and journalism – experiences that shaped her understanding of how disciplined habits of thought are formed, and why they must be cultivated early, as a foundation for excellence across disciplines. She conceived The Schola as a forum for a foundational moment of intellectual formation. She holds a BS from Cornell University and an MPhil from the University of Oxford. As the founder of Veritaum and the steward of The Schola, she guides and sustains this mission.
