Schools help students grow when they provide environments that balance their archetypal roles. Such schools:

1. Protect students from physical harm, harassment, or abuse and demeaning notions about their potential;

2. Promote individual gifts and talents by holding up a magic mirror that shows them how special they are;

3. Encourage and reward discipline, focus and achievement;

4. Provide opportunities for sharing and collaborative work;

5. Assume positive intentions, whatever a student's behaviour;

6. Offer students opportunities for genuine choice, so they begin to practice having an impact on their own destinies and on larger social systems.