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I found the article “ First Person Plural” really interesting. The article suggests that what makes people happy depends on what makes a person “them”; in other words their self. And then the idea of multiple selves is introduced. This, I feel, is consistent with post-modernist ideology. I very much like the idea of there being multiple selves and not having to choose one of them to be “me”. However, like other similar post-modernist ideas, it sounds great in theory but might not be applicable practically. Yes, in theory its great to be able to be more than a self, but practically, what do you do with that? Assuming that some of these parts will be in conflict with each other, how do you live your life? How do make decisions? Maybe that’s why multiple personality is considered a disorder. This can also be generalized for multiple selves to multiple realities/worlds. How do we feel about that? Do we see some inherent truth in it but disregard it because in the world and society we’ve constructed, it just wouldn’t work? Moreover, what implications does that have for education. If we let go of the idea of there being one self, then what does education do?