I would like to take up an opportunity presented by Miss Onyx. Felicia asked, last night when only a couple of us were still awake, "What is Evil?" I understand she has a term paper coming up.
But what a question! And debate was lively, even among the few of us who were present. I would particularly like to thank Yuri for expressing her opinion in such a learned and articulate way. But surely, a question of this nature is something all our faculty would have educated opinions on, and which all our students might consider.
I am therefore asking all of our faculty to respond to this post with a thoughtful explanation of what you think Evil is. While questions and debate are of course welcome, the emphasis here is on each teacher speaking thoughtfully and at length -- not responding to the other faculty who have already written, in an attempt necessarily to rebut -- but to approach the question from your own experience.
This is, I hope, only the first of such discussions. Each topic will remain collected and made available on our site through a link to the right. These collections of brief essays by our faculty will not only help to educate our girls, but will serve another, very important, purpose: they will give new students a way to learn more about our faculty, and so make a better choice about faculty mentors.
Out of a concern that my fellow faculty might wish not to publicly disagree with the Headmistress, I will wait a few days before responding here with my own thoughts on the matter. But I invite all of our teachers to educate us in our first "SINposium."
