Education, coming from the Latin word “Educare,” can be defined more or less as the process of becoming aware and the gaining of useful knowledge. That pretty much defines the Independent.
In my decades as an educator at Santa Barbara Middle School, Dunn Middle School, and some years in Kenya and Thailand and Bolivia, as well as about a hundred or so experiential adventures with kids near and far, there’s been one local constant in my comings and goings, a touchstone to our community: the Santa Barbara Independent.
These days it’s the first thing I open online in the morning to find out how and what our community is doing — especially important now. Even though I read the N.Y. Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, and, yes, sometimes Fox News to try to understand what verbal contortions are needed to support an altered state of reality,the Indy is our paper, our community’s source and hub for news, perspective, and opinion.
