p167...Education is life itself, not just preparation for later living.....We feel that this is the most important teaching that we can give our children, yet we cannot give it to them. We can only hope to show it to them in our own living, & trust them to discover it in theirs.
p168...It is a core principle of our HS curriculum that the conventional & commonly accepted version of anything is probably an illusion & possibly a lie, including the things that school boards & teachers & fellow parents all take for granted, accept unquestioningly, & unthinkingly reinforce for one another. Many things that everyone takes fro granted make sense only when you exercise no skepticism & pay no attention, but it's easy to get swept away by the herd. To see things as they are, to trust your intuition, you have to observe closely things & yourself. To trust your own instincts you have to have a breadth of experience & input & eposure you get only leaving the herd behind. To believe that foundations everyone trusts can crumble, & to be ready to jump if they do, you need to know that other foundations everyone trusted have crumbled before, but you only find out by resisting the security of numbers & looking where the "safe" can't see.
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