"Our own school, John. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All we need is the sky!"
Definition of transcendalism: any system of philosiphy, esp that of Kant, holding that the key to knowledge of the nature of reality lies in the critical examination of the processes of reason on which depends the nature of experience. --dictionary.reference.com
This quote is practically the definition of transcendalism. Henry is wanting to be able to expand the thought "walls" of the students' minds to beyond that what they are currently. Reality is what is happening right now, and Henry wants the students to realize that. He also wants them to experience nature at it's finest, to go to what is natural, to be free. For their knowledge and minds to be free of the dismal classroom, where imagination is "boxed" and confined and stifled.
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