A Class · Global Sovereign University · Trades
Brick, stone, mortar and drainage, from the site you set up on the first morning to the restoration of work that time and water have already tested. Twelve lessons, one per chapter of the book. Free, no account, nothing to install.
The chapter, broken into the separate ideas you will be asked to use. Read it, or have it read to you.
A bench you can change: choose the mortar for a job, load a wall, trace where the water goes. It answers the way the chapter does. Then go put your hands on real stone.
A new situation every attempt. Miss one and you are told why that choice fails, and sent back to the exact idea it was testing.
One per chapter, in the book's order. Lessons open as they are built.
Working the lessons is practice, and practice does not earn a certificate. The certificate comes from a separate exam that is graded on our server, so no answer key ever reaches your browser and no score can be reported by the student.
Thirty questions drawn from all twelve lessons; you need 80% to pass. A pass prints a serial-numbered certificate with a link anyone can use to verify it. It says plainly that it records comprehension of the book, and that it is not a trade licence, an industry credential, or a qualification issued by any authority.
The Stonemason's Discipline was written by our founder, Dr. Gene A Constant, and donated to the Foundation. Published by Global Sovereign University Press. Read the whole book free, or listen to it, on the reader page. The class is free. The book is how the Foundation pays for it.
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Questions people ask
Yes. All twelve lessons are free, with no account and nothing to install. Your progress is kept on your own device.
It has twelve lessons, taught from the book. In each one you read the ideas, work a bench that answers back, then answer questions that change every attempt. Miss one and you are sent back to the exact idea it was testing.
Take the separate exam at globalsovereignuniversity.org/stonemasons-exam. It has thirty questions drawn from all twelve lessons, in a new order every attempt, graded on our server so no answer key ever reaches your browser. 80 percent earns Silver, 90 percent Gold and 97 percent Platinum, and every pass carries a serial number anyone can verify. It is free, and you may retake it.
No. The class teaches the craft's judgment. It is not a license, and it does not replace an engineer or a qualified mason for footings near a foundation, significant retaining walls, fireplaces and chimneys, or anything your local code requires.
No. Every lesson is taught on the page. The book it is taught from, The Stonemason's Discipline, goes deeper, and buying a copy is how the Foundation pays for the free class.
No. The lessons are practice and the exam is the proof. They are separate, so you can sit the exam whenever you are ready.