COMMENT We live in a world I call of a C-3-I; of consciousness, individuals, institutions, and ideology that dominates us. As an educator I am interested in seeing those I ‘teach’ become, like a ‘Buddhist monk-in-training’ in a Zen Buddhist temple somewhere in the mountains of Vermont.

I want them to be aware of their surroundings by first being aware of themselves and the world of the ‘prison-house of language’, as the American literary theorist and postmodern theorist Frederick Jameson would say of the cognitive matrix we are in.