Blake School - Reflections / Call O Pan Yearbook (Hopkins, MN)

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But As A Person Grows Older, hc builds walls, often needless, to protect his security. Walls of embarrassment, anxiety, fear, or anger. Walls which destroy communication. Communication is even harder today. Our technological comforts have separated the people, destroyed our human comforts of togetherness, a sense of community and place. The mass media and the daily news have brought many people to a state beyond shock, beyond a sense of values. The exploding population and our regimented and comforming society have often made the single man a nonentity, unable to produce an individual identity. So we squeeze into giant groups, categories, and shout at each other. What society before ours has ever divided the whole world into two groups, the under-thirties and over-thirties, and called them separate and distinct? What can we do? Nobody knows, but at least we can talk about it. We can all talk about it, and perhaps a solution will arise. Talk about it. Communicate. In every home, on every street, in every school, in every way possible, the people must come together. 5

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Then Something Happened Last Summer A group of teachers and students got together to talk to each other. Talk to each other. From their report: We wanted to free ourselves from practical realities of running a school in order to find out where the hell we were running to. We got to know each other — not as well as we might — there were still barriers, disguises but in a relative way we got to know each other damn well. We trusted more, understood more our first realization was that we didn't know our colleagues very well — certainly not our students — Maybe we didn't want to know them — But now that seemed like a very good idea 7