This is the first of three courses on transforming education. In the Transforming Education: Knowing, Learning, and Being course, participants will gain an academic and experiential appreciation of the centrality of education in building a prosperous society. During the course, participants will engage in a local educational endeavor, applying concepts learned in the course to practice in the field through dialogue and collective reflection. Within the experience gained, participants will consider education founded upon three principles: universal participation, coherence between the material and spiritual, and learning as a mode of operation. Applying these principles to education brings to light several key concepts, including prosperity building, constructive agency, reading the reality of current educational issues in the United States, fugitive pedagogies, how multiple ways of knowing and being nourish material and spiritual aspirations, how capacity building relates to community building, and how academic and grassroots endeavors can be mutually beneficial. Participants learn to read their reality in relation to an educational endeavor they have chosen, and, together with their classmates, engage in learning about a pedagogy of social transformation in light of local and global trends in education.