People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

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