ON EDUCATION

Education is a fundamental right and an obligation not only of educators to students but of students to studentship. Studentship entails the enjoyment of the learning process, an ongoing discovery of practical and productive results. Such results are mediated by the aspirations of the well activated, consciously directed developments in imagination, innovation and need, at involving levels of emerging skill.

The complex nature of a dynamic world entails empirical, ethical and faithful commitments to the dedication of our greatest aspirations. Individual interests and abstract group collective identities and interests, orient our concerns TOWARD the achievable in virtue of the perception and actualizability of the unachievable ongoingly challenged. If it were not for this principle, progress would have no vision, challenge no lessons, and history no implicit and necessary record of wonder at the nature of progress.

While some thinkers believe that Education is a means to manage inevitable crisis, which to some extent indeed is involved in its developmental possibilities, it seems to me education is a possibility to arrange THRIVING, on many levels and for many persons at once and harmoniously through a sort of elegant deliberation of practice, purpose and methodical understanding, that holds people to the highest standards possible.

Poem and image © 2011 and 2016 respectively by Peter Kaleb Theodoropoulos aka Rockwell Wilder