Exploration Three

How can community help schoolsto live with uncertainty?

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves and you change the individuals and nations ... Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowerings.

Ben Okri

Ben Okri poses the idea that our values are embedded deep in our cultural narrative. These values are like a subtext to our daily lives that, while they are not always present, serve as a bedrock to the busy activity of the ...

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