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Great canons angle toward great power, and the great privilege of great power is an incuriosity about those who lack it. That incuriosity is what afflicts the dullest critics of safe spaces and the like. But if these writers, teachers, and administrators could part with the privilege of their own ignorance, they would see that they too need safe spaces—and that, for their own sakes, they have made a safe space of nearly the entire world.
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The maintenance of oneself is a shifting activity, as one’s circumstances change and one’s experience accumulates; fidelity to oneself, as in being honest about one’s faults, ought to be constant, no matter where or what age one is.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
The mismatch between the demands made on us by the world and the capabilities we have to work with is the great meta-crisis of our time, characterizing the struggles of individuals, organizations, and nation-states.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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