Exodus

Passover is the epic story of a people’s liberation from bondage and their acceptance of the laws defining ethical behaviour.

Liberation is a personal matter, but one which speaks to the relationship between an individual and others. Education, too, is a personal matter, but one which is fostered in a community of learners.

In today’s daily logs, I asked the students of my senior classes to consider their responsibility for their own education and to devise a plan, to be effected by them in cooperation with their peers and teacher, for advancing that education to the level that best meets their needs and aspirations.

In some way, I’m asking for an exodus from the self-imposed restrictions of juvenile behaviour and the acceptance of the power and authority of adult behaviour. I’m asking students, as the Passover story has it, to consider an exodus not of others, but of them, themselves.