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Our Philosophy of Learning

These are not original. The list comes from celebrated artist and educator Sister Corita Kent and was created as part of a project for a class she taught in 1967-1968.


  • Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for a while. 
  • General duties of a student - pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students. 
  • General duties of a teacher - pull everything out of your students. 
  • Consider everything an experiment. 
  • Be self-disciplined - this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
  • Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail, there's only make. 
  • The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things. 
  • Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes. 
  • Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think. 
  • Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at all things carefully, often. Save everything - it might come in handy later.
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