Getting down on one s hands and knees isn t a natural thing to do (or an easy thing for people my age), but if we hope to grow and learn, we need to get out of our comfort zones and see the world in new ways.

The words on the stone are part of the riddle, and what you do to read the stone is the allegory for what SI is a school that teaches students by making them, at times, a little uncomfortable by asking them to change their perspective. Why? Because the mural is really a riddle and an allegory.

There s something written on it, but in order to read it, you have to get on your hands and knees and struggle a little. There s a reason muralist Boris Koodrin 67 painted it there. Given the angle it s on, it should have rolled to the bottom of the mound. The stone in the center of the white circle shouldn t be where it is. The next time you re at SI, look for a small stone on the left side of the first floor mural. Most students walk by it and never see it. We have a symbol of that lesson in our first floor hallway. What we hope to teach our students is that real education involves a little discomfort, especially as we ask them to look at the world in ways they aren t used to. Coeducation did not come easily for some, nor did our change from a city to a regional school. When I wrote SI s history, I saw how our school changed for the better in ways that sometimes caused discomfort and, at times, even pain.

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