My seniors’ first essays almost without fail contain absolute statments – all, every, none. We talk about the idea that there are no absolutes. We read Heart of Darkness and Poisonwood Bible during the first semester. Works that question truth, especially absolute truth. While some say that the statement that there is no absolute disproves itself because it is an absolute. https://goo.gl/rFhNHR . 

The reality is that truth lives only in the perspective of the sender and the receiver of that truth. For seniors who have been taught that there are “right” answers, this idea is mind blowing.