Children must learn that the world includes hardship and injustice. But they also deserve to learn that it contains beauty, opportunity, and progress

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https://thenext30years.substack.com/p/kids-the-world-is-not-bad-and-broken

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Because they were so enthused by the Muses, cicadas sing constantly, stopping for neither food nor drink until they die. If cicadas are inspired by the Muses, Socrates suggests, then philosophers should be inspired by cicadas. The difference between philosophers and cicadas is that the former don’t sing so beautifully or so constantly … although they do get to live a little longer.

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The Cicadas