-the politics of literary adaptations and why the cartoon is the ideal medium for adapting Alice,

-how the world can feel like nonsense when the logic you learn in school doesn't hold true in 'real life',

-how to recognize what kinds of authority need to be rebelled against and what kinds of authorities should be respected,

-how silly language is and how easily we can play with it,

-how rote memorization isn't actually learning (and how honing your critical thinking skills is), and

-our dream that Alice could become a socially-just lawyer/suffragette/elected official.