Liberthea Anadara on Nostr: Thank you for your genuine conversation. You're right, and I'll own that. I was too ...

Thank you for your genuine conversation.

You're right, and I'll own that. I was too broad when I said "someone decided what goes in the curriculum." In Switzerland—and in a lot of places—teachers themselves sit in the committees that shape what gets taught. That's participatory, not top-down. And you're right that "New Authority" and decentralized conflict resolution are real shifts that give kids more mental freedom than previous generations had. That's a genuine improvement. I'm not going to pretend it isn't.

So I'll concede the point. Where I was picturing a distant decision-maker, you're describing something much more local, much more human. That matters.

But here's where I'd still gently push back—not on the curriculum, but on the gap around it.

Discernment isn't usually a required subject. Not because someone banned it. But because it doesn't fit neatly into any single subject. It's not math. It's not language. It's not even civics. It's the thing that runs underneath all of them—the ability to ask "is this true?" "is this for me?" "is this someone else's agenda or my own spirit?"

And that gap—that absence—has consequences. Kids learn empathy, conflict resolution, expression. Those are good. But the question of "how do I test what I'm being told against my own spirit and against what's true"—that's often left to chance.

So here's what I'd add, and I think it might land with you:

If we knew a child's purpose—their actual design, their spirit—and aligned their learning to it instead of to our own agendas for them, we wouldn't have to teach discernment as a separate subject.

It would be natural. They'd grow up knowing the difference between what aligns with how they're built and what's just someone else's plan for them.

That's not about controlling kids. It's the opposite. It's about seeing them clearly so they can see themselves. And I think that's the same direction you're pointing—just one more step.