Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
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