"Believing in people, believing in some rich unknown something and drawing it out-that is the vigorous spirit of education."
And yet, in contemporary American culture, the purpose of education is to extract not "some rich unknown something," but rather earning potential -- not that which will enrich the spirit of the human community, but that which will profit the insatiable material desires of our nation.
In such an environment, the potential of the individual is measured quantitatively, our worth reduced to a number. It is as much the fault of the educational system as those of us who perpetuate false ideals by submitting to them. I aim to fight. I aim to believe in people.
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