ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author says that students have choice; that students life is their life; that in schools students communication can either be real or sham; that educational sham manifests in roles much more than in malicious deceit; that emotional openness in both directions repays itself and validates its own risks; that their style of openness affects students perceived openness; that honest messages do affirm others, and themselves; that vulnerability is not only possible, it is strength. Most serious students, as students, seem to deny they have feelings at all. This isn’t surprising, given the educational system which goes out of its way to establish a vicious message, interpreted by a student. A student friend expressed some despair at what she saw as the increasing apathy among current students when compared to the vital activism of the 1960s.
