About
I teach at a correctional education facility; my teenage students face jail time ranging from a few months to 25 years.
We focus on art, philosophy, English, science, social studies, and above all, compassion.
A sample cross-disciplinary lesson:
If there are any marks at all of special design in creation, one of the things most evidently designed is that a large proportion of all animals should pass their existence in tormenting and devouring other animals. Anyone, whatever kind of religious phases he may use, must concede that if nature and Man are both the works of a being of perfect goodness, that Being intended Nature as a scheme to be amended, not imitated by Man.
-John Stuart Mill
Essay topic: Do you agree with John Stuart Mill’s assertion? Should we live to follow or should we amend nature’s way of life–survival of the fittest?
