0 And Now, a Pause.

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
- Plato

 Today, (the 8th of November) is the last day of the first quarter of the 2012-2013 school year. Today is when we take a pause and look back over what we've accomplished, what we wish to achieve, and where we generally want to go from here.

My answer (and one of the easy ones), is forward. We must go forward.

I mean that in as many ways is  humanly possible to means things. I mean that we must further ourselves in our intellectual thoughts. We must continue on reading and discussing and helping and trying to understand. We must try to actively participate in our thoughts and understanding. We must debate more and think more and not get each other on the first go. We must comment a lot more. We must, above all else, learn.

We can only do that by proceeding down the people mover of life. We cannot level off (deemed, "sideways") or even recede. We don't have to agree on what forward means in relation to this class. Forward can be whatever you think it is. It can be anarchy if you're curly haired and want that, go for it.

It doesn't matter as long as it's up and forward. Positive slope and whatnot. I think that's how it goes in math or something.

You know, as long as your forward includes more debates. The debates are pretty great. It's the best way to try on ideas for size and exercise thoughts and they leave the participants feeling mentally exhausted but at the same time totally fulfilled in a way wr don't get in our other classes.