she has to teach them how to heal their notion of themselves in the world. She has to convince them of their right to even be here at all. (Again: the arrogance of belonging.) She has to introduce them to the concept that they might actually be loved in return by the very entity that they themselves revere—by nature itself, by the very entity that created them.
Because otherwise it’s never going to work.
Because otherwise nobody—not the earth, not the students, not any us—will ever benefit.