We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.
The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
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The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
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