August 18, 2004
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Topic: Depth
So…i’ve gone from editing my book, to getting a bit deeper. On the surace, it’s about improving education, creating dialogue between admin. and students, encouraging gap years, encouraging mindfulness in terms of course selection, job pursuits, encouraging a de-emphasis of grades, encouraging study abroad, yadda yadda yadda.
But the theme that’s keeping it going is about life, about meaning, about consuming material things, and consuming meaning from life. About living your own life vs. living the life society has granted you. It’s about what we have defined as normal, vs. the things that should open our eyes a bit. It’s about making life less about the media, about politics, economics, and more about us, the real people, not just the numbers. It’s about confronting ourselves. Reflection. It’s about human potential. The need for our schools to be centers of compassion and service. Grades and testing? These couldn’t be further from what we need to be achieving in school. Thoughts and actions must be radical in the sense of creating real and meaningful change through vision and persistance.
