Chapter 5-Vision

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By vision we mean our vision of education.

Our vision of education is: the way of living by which children can become who they are.

Every ciuld is a person, & every person is an end in himself or herself, never a means to an end. So the purpose of a child is not ensure that a school will stay open, that teachers will have something to do, that the society will benefit from a well-trained workforce. Our children do not exist so that we will have something to brag about, nor are their setbacks our failures. We must detach our egos from the children to loose ourselves in order to help them & to lessen the brden on them.

Becasue the child is not a means to an end, education is for the child, not for anything else. The purpose of education is to turn a child's potential into reality. Another word for this is "acutalization." Education is not study, & not a manner of learning to read or write or do math or get good grades or take tests, even though these may be a part of education, if they are a part of life. It's not something you have to "get" to "get" a job. Education is living & learning & developing.