Friday, February 15, 2013

Schools Matter: Can You Please Pull Back the Curtains?

Schools Matter: Can You Please Pull Back the Curtains?:


Can You Please Pull Back the Curtains?


It has occurred to me that we are wasting our time.  Culture, economics, government, any and all of our organizing institutions, are against the individual "becoming" fully a thinking and feeling being...something more than an animal, but also something more than an animal with a modicum of mind.  That is, it seems to me that most of us have done little more growing into the vast spaces of our becoming than simply thinking we are "selves" and that we are "special" because of it.  Apes and some chimps apparently recognize themselves as distinct beings and so we have not moved far off of that.

All the time spent here there everywhere endlessly jawing over this or that program policy belief unbelief public private and so on, is time in which we don't become something deeper within our own knowing.  We are