A lie is really anything that is believed without due reflection. Activities that stifle the imagination lead to lies. Human beings define themselves through the projects with which they become involved. By means of engagement with a project, the attitude of wide-awakeness develops and contributes to the choice of actions that lead to self formation. A project means the intentionalized vision or purpose of making or constructing the self and the world.
Human beings are capable of viewing their own actions and the world critically.
Wide-awakeness is not morally or politically neutral. Social action and intervention am crucial to attaining and sustaining an attitude of wide-awakeness. The ultimate purpose of education is to help students and their teachers create meaning in their lives. Teacher should challenge the taken for granted, the given and the bound and the restricted. Education at its best is a process of teaching people to explore ideas about themselves and the world in which they live, to ask questions about the experience called living and to embrace ambiguity, to notice the unusual without fear and to look upon the ordinary with new eyes.