I am of the belief that we need to create many different places for “conversation” in our lives – and by conversation I don’t just mean talking.    I think we do ourselves and our children a great disservice when we impose the notion of achievement as the only yardstick to measure success – creating a full life is and should be the end goal. 

The thinkers of early childhood education –like Waldorf had it right.  By giving kids, who are the collective ethos of the human spirit, places and spaces to go inside themselves,  newly inspired possibilities emerge from within the soul of the human imprint.  In the end, by fulfilling ourselves, we serve others naturally.  

I hope education finds a way back to this place while walking the achievement tightrope.   The question of “who are we and who am I” is getting lost in the shuffle of academic metrics – and the price we all pay is a shared loss of our human spirit…

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