Reimagining the Classroom

Epilogue: Learning How to Love and Be Loved

I will end with a call to do the absurd, the impossible. A call to teach that which cannot be taught, to learn that which must be absorbed and felt rather than learned. For in the end, we have arrived at an education that looks nothing like that which we call a school, a classroom that cannot be contained in any room.

Let us ask the questions like this: What makes a good life? What makes a good world? Where can we find beauty and joy? How can a childhood cultivate this discovery?

Let me begin with a memory. It is worth noting that this is not the pathway most schools of education would follow. And I do not mean to reject their ways of knowing, the epistemology that seeks evidence‐based practices. ...