What James Baldwin conveys in the passage, is that students, or people overall, should be aware that just as America has a large history and is present with many great and horrible events, so is the entire world, large, with so many histories behind it and present, with great and horrible events, as well as large, but we shouldn’t be afraid to explore it, or “examine” as he states, that we shouldn’t be too attached to society, its limits and strict moralities. When he states “the world is larger” he means that the world is vast and full of many surprises and things we have yet to experience and discover about it or ourselves and that the events happening each day are both negative and positive, but it will either way happen. Our necessity to examine and obligation to learn more about the large world means that we should not be limited or restricted to stay within our limits or within our knowledge, that we are obliged to learn more, to gain more, and to create experiences that can either be negative and positive to learn new things and survive society and the world overall. In school, something that could have and could still help us learn about this vast world could be how society works, and how the financial system works so we can have an idea and make it easier for us as we grow into adults, so easier to manage it and understand it without making any mistake, although we learn from mistakes, other people’s advice or life tips can help us learn and manage the world without struggling. This will also help us be confident enough to try other things and gain more knowledge
