So we hand them another big box of nothing—the big box of possibility! Your future is limitless! You can do anything you set your mind to! The journey is the destination! Take risks! Be audacious! Dream big! But this mantra doesn’t help them, either. If you don’t know what your life is for, how does it help to be told that your future is limitless?

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Those from moneyed parents often are sentenced to private schools where they are dunked in old ink, soaked in Latin and Greek, and suffer the education of the elite. I know the arguments for a classical education. However, the point I labor toward is this: our perception of the people we deal with every day depends upon who we are ourselves. When o

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So we hand them another big box of nothing—the big box of possibility! Your future is limitless! You can do anything you set your mind to! The journey is the destination! Take risks! Be audacious! Dream big! But this mantra doesn’t help them, either. If you don’t know what your life is for, how does it help to be told that your future is limitless?

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our culture fails to give young people clearer moral guidance, I think, for fear of imposing. Parents are our best friends now, they don’t want to nag us about little things like right and wrong. Friends don’t tell each other how to behave. That’s not education’s job. Therapists don’t want to overstep the line. Some might say something vague about ... See more