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We cant' deny the cynicism and callousness
of which humans are capable. We also can't deny the courage and
compassion that offer us hope. It's our choice which characteristics
we'll steer our lives by.
- Paul Loeb, The Soul of a Citizen
The universe bends toward justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
during the Montgomery bus boycott.
Welcome to universe-Wired Learning!
To help learning become more filled with personal meaning and
thereby more satisfying for learners everywhere--especially in
classrooms where learning has been made to be punitive and painful--this
is the mission of this site. To launch this project, we tailor
a page from one of our world's most universally meaningful and
satisfying stories, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
The result is our Site Manifesto:
As long as classrooms exist in which learners learn facts about
subjects and not truths about themselves, acquire skills to
raise test scores but not understandings to deepen their awareness
of their classmates and their communities; as long as learners
find no help in forming larger questions and following these
questions to new perspectives on their world and universe homes
and how they fit there--so long as classrooms persist on earth
in which learners learn what things are worth but fail to discover
what their own lives mean and what they themselves
value--sites like this cannot be useless.
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