The view of education as an encounter between the student and the world deeply resonated with me. It reminded me of Hannah Arendt’s call to love the world enough to take responsibility for it. Further reflections on agency, paradox, and respect reframed my understanding of what education truly is, or could be: not simply learning, but becoming. It is about engaging with the world, embracing its contradictions, and finding meaning in the spaces between knowing and not knowing, teaching and being taught.
