Britt Julious, you speak a truth I know well in the schoolhouse where we waited for lessons that never came, feeling euphoria only when the world finally acknowledges our humanity despite its cruelty. Yet this joy is shadowed by the heavy burden of knowing what happens when minds are left wild without guidance or when they are crushed by fraud and prejudice. We must navigate these dangerous waters with care, for to flout such striving idly invites shame, while to guide it rightly leads to honor. “To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.” This warning reminds me that our education must be a shield as much as a spark.