Dare.

Doisneau, Punished Pupil, 1956

From Miriam E. Wilt’s 1965 essay, “In Teaching – The Right to Wonder” …

Let Our Lord the bell represent those thousands of "no's" we are always sprinkling around like salt on a fried egg.  Consider how many of them we might answer with a "Why not?" 

Never must we lose sight of those necessary conformities that reaffirm our rebellious humanity – never must we impose those restrictions that are meaningless. What a fine line must be drawn between the justifiable "no's" and the equally meaningful "Why noťs?"  Children have never been satisfied to accept the status quo. They are full of "Why's?" What happens to their right to wonder, to experiment, to dare to be wrong? How and why have so many of us lost our way so that "iťs always been done that way" has become our irreducible answer. We must not change just for the sake of changing, for to do that is just as suspect as blind acceptance of the concept "everybody's doing it."