TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Code Academy, an organization that teaches people how to program, build web applications and create new ideas to improve the world, has re-launched themselves as the Starter League.

Here’s how they describe what they do in their blog post announcing the re-launch:

However, simply “teaching people to code” was never our only purpose. We wanted to provide a path for people who wanted to start change — in their industries, in their communities, in their lives. To us, being a Starter means so much more than just being able to write code; it’s about being driven to do something meaningful with it. A Starter is an innovator, a disruptor; someone who is burning to solve problems and is willing to bust their ass to learn what they need in order to do so.

I love that. I think there’s two ways to think about what the Starter League is doing: first is they’re creating this century’s education. They take people with no knowledge of how to build web applications and teach them—but most importantly, they surround them with people who, like them, want to create meaningful services for people, and with individuals and companies working in the field. By doing so, they create a path for people to start a career, and an environment where they can meet people to work with and for ideas to bounce around and develop. In many ways, this century’s university programs should look a lot more like what the Starter League looks like.

Second, they’re teaching people to think. Universities tend to teach people how to read, analyze and memorize, but not to spot failings in services they use throughout their daily lives and how they could be fixed, nor to think about what the problem really is when something needs improved. The Starter League is trying to do that, and that’s the kind of thinking that is going to be important in this century.

The Starter League is dedicated to a rather narrow group of disciplines, but I am incredibly excited about what they’re doing. I believe organizations like this are the beginning of how we re-make education.