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    %CHILD LEARN TRUTH COPE SKILLS COLLUSION ADDICT 890612

     Each child needs to learn how to cope with the truths
which are violated by the collusions and addictions of the
community   which   is  the  context   for   the   child's
development.

     The  ability to cope with violated truths is  central
to  personal and communal integrity.   It is not  easy  to
deal with truths which one's own community is in the habit
of ignoring/denying; for the community is likely to punish
anybody  who  witnesses to the truths which the  community
does not know how to deal with.

     It  is dangerous to witness to violated truths,   for
such  witness  violates the collusions which  violate  the
truths.   There is a basic conflict between collusions and
those who would witness to the truths which the  collusion
violates.    It  is  not easy to  survive  to  witness  to
violated truths.   To witness effectively by giving  one's
life creatively is not easy,  and it is not obvious how to
best witness in that way.

     In principle the process of liberal education is  the
process  of  helping the next generation to learn  how  to
witness  to  the truths which the community does not  know
how to cope with.  The process of liberal education is the
process  of  becoming  liberated from the  collusions  and
addictions of the present generation.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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