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The mission, as we conceive it, is how we make the vision come true. Our vision of educaiton is, as we said above, the manner of living by which our children become what they are, become fully free & actualized. With this vision, HSing is the only way to go, because no other educational option available to us advances that vision. Our mission, then, became HSing, but HSing with a particular emphasis on freedom & on the present moment. Martine calls it "Carpe diem," Latin for "Seize the day," a phrase by the Roman poet Horace:
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
While we speak, odious time flies. Pluck the day, trust little in tomorrow. (Odes I, 11.8-9)
The phrase also describes a school of English poetry that gave us such lines as:
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a flying,
and the same flower that blooms today, tomorrow will be dying.
(Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time")
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