“He thought of all living species that train their young in
the art of survival...yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not
merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child’s education to the
purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and
evil, before he has started to think.”
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
How to educate the future. How does one educate the future.
This is what I am in the business of. I need to be prepared so that they may be
prepared. Analyze and criticize. Create open spaces for them to grow in. The
concept of spaces. Public Space. Private Space. The Universe. Our place in
space. The merging of spaces. The private to the public. The public to the
private. What are our rights as humans? What rights have we lost as being
humans? The deserved and the undeserved. Identify yourself until your identity
disappears and then you will belong to a new space. The uncreated space. The
order of the order. The cycle has not left you. You have left the cycle. There
is suddenly a you here and it is born. It cannot be unborn but you can. Do not
ever become reborn. If I can educate you, what does it mean? What special
privileges am I, as a teacher, given? Where should I go? What should I do?
There is this whole world to show you but it is changing. I cannot show you it.
I cannot show you the world. I can equip you. The finding of space. Of Spaces.
We are of spaces. Of blank pages, of silences waiting to be filled or left
alone. Loneliness is not the worst thing that can happen. Words that leave room
for discussion create space. Words that are rude or unsatisfying create space.
The space between you, and I; the evolution that left us isolated. It is
loneliest at the top, so they say. The space of saying and what is not being
said. The Milky Way. The galaxies. The stars that are dead before we know it.
The dirt that gives space for roots to grow. The growing of. The rising up. The
up and of. The onward. The empty space of windows. Windows that are created to
give us more space. To Reconnect. To look into and out of but not through. If
one opens a window, one creates space and noise; one creates senses but not
instinct; one is given words but no real movement; if one opens a window one is
taking action but doing nothing; unless one leaps. Unless the fall is great. Always
there is space. There are rooms in houses just filled with spaces. Beds filled
with spaces. There is so much space here and so much using up of space and
changing of space and isolating of space and exploring of space that it might
be likely we are overwhelmed. What is the fit in here? What is the of and the
doing? What of it? Resistance is futile. We will live because it is in our
instinct to do so and so, and so then, it is the possibility of education to
fulfill your instinct to live and live well. I am not sure yet what this means.
