We are all teachers. But we are all students.

I once saw someone who was wearing a tee-shirt that read:

I homeschool because I have seen the village and I don’t want it raising my kids.

While I certainly understand the sentiment behind that statement, a part of me worries as well about the children this person is homeschooling. One day, they will be a part of the village at large. How will they learn anything about the world if the world is not a part of their learning?

But this post isn’t about the perceived strengths or weaknesses of homeschooling. I am not an expert of the subject by any means. Rather, this is a post about the village at large, since I have a little more expertise in that realm of wisdom.

What is so wrong with the village?

When we are children, we have a narrow view of life, often taught by our parents and the sphere of adults we encounter in our day to day lives. As we grow older, hopefully so too does our village. In order to expand our views, we need to be exposed to the ideas, ideals and even morals of others that help us form our own. We need these experiences that others bring us so that we may be better able to understand our own place in the world and how it can evolve.

We all have a journey in life. We all have a story that is ours to write. But to do that, we need that village of people to teach us along the way. We need like-minded individuals to help us form our opinions, yes. But we also need those who may challenge us with other wisdoms.

We are all students of others. But we are also all teachers.

We all have strengths and weaknesses that are better when we are meshed in a village. We all have theologies and ideas that others might disagree with. But we can’t learn, we can’t grow, we can’t be the protagonist of our stories without others who will challenge us and also learn from us.

And we become a stronger village when we learn to work together instead of apart. We learn to wrote stories of love and light, hope and peace, joy and magic when we learn to become students of each other as well as teachers.

So who can you teach?

And how can you learn?

Stay magical.

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