Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. An education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their choice of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.
~ Hannah Arendt
- - - - -That's a lot of words, Hannah Arendt.
All I have to say about this right now is that I like to think that kids are going to renew an uncommon world because that's the one where I live.
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