Serve education as life’s truth
Turn away no one from education as a human entitlement
Let education speak clearly for justice
Challenge the educational poverty of prejudice and persecution
Speak educational truth to power and to those profiting from educational privilege
Defend the right for all to find meaning through the joy of learning
Pursue the vocation of education that ‘freedom is to learn’
Education sustains all human communities
Absence of education threatens all life, including life as yet unknown to us
Meaningful education is the examined life that asks questions
Questions bring the mind into relation with itself
The space this opens is called critical thinking
Where there is injustice, power and privilege will suppress critical thinking
But even here, freedom demands to live its own truth in the examined life.
Education serves freedom because ‘freedom is to learn’
I assume I know things
Questioning makes me doubt them
This the Socratic experience
Such experience is exhilarating, for I lose my ground
I lose knowledge to the questions, but I am richer for it
And then, here we go again…
Until I am able to live with the questions
And to live as the questions
Then the Socratic experience becomes a way of life
I know that I do not know. But I am not empty. I am abundant
I will go by the way which is the way of learning…
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