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. Teachers must be taught to educate our children to take responsibility for our collective well being.
Pedagogy is a collaboration in which participants are both part of the group and apart from it.
Humanities serve as a catalyst through which teachers and students can explore deeply and thus make meaning out of life and culture. While it is not really necessary for everyone to be deeply knowledgeable in math and science, it is crucial for everyone to seriously contemplate who we are as individuals and as members of a culture. A humanities curriculum should be emphasized. Works of art deliberately created to move people to critical awareness, to a sense of moral agency and to a conscious engagement with the world. They must be central to any curriculum that is constructed today.