Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A Strong Finish!

Students: working with you this year has been a delight. Each of you has brought innumerable insight, joy, fun, and hope to Rm. 33, and once summer arrives, I will miss our conversations, projects, and collective growth.

However...however!

We still have our final project to finish: our "Ideal Country" creations. As we discussed in class today, these projects give you a chance to try and form a society better than the ones we have recently explored. We want to try and create systems that can help provide justice, equality, and freedom for the people who live in your countries, and yet also maintain stability. We have seen how rule in Nazi Germany and then in Taliban Afghanistan failed miserably on those fronts, and now you have the chance to create in hope.

Think deeply, yet marry your thinking to solid and practical ideas.

Good luck!