From it comes a call to the future, to renewal, and to change. In this profound sense education should provide the capacity to change the world. When education becomes the tomb of the past it stultifies and suffocates initiative and creativity. It ossifies the structures of a society. Knowledge is controlled and parceled out.
Information is restricted.
Conformity and obedience become the hallmarks of learning. The educational establishment, like a state religion, dries up the spiritual dynamic, and the intellectual curiosity of a people. But Adler's school was intended to be a place where tradition nourishes growth and change. A school filled with life is a place of growth. That growth encourages a dynamic engagement of the learners.