Education doesn't belong to schools or teachers, it belongs to students. You never needed anyone’s permission to take ownership of your own education and yet, the way most of our systems are structured, it takes a lot of luck and circumstance for most students to realize that their education belongs to them. Some may argue that a classroom belongs to the teacher and a school belongs to the state or principal, but it seems obvious to me, having been “behind the scenes”, that a person’s…