A b e c e d a r i a n

"[Everything] depends upon breaking free, a leap and then a question. I would like to claim this is how learning happens: that the educative task is to create situations in which the young are moved to "begin" to ask, in all the tones of voice there are, Why?"  Maxine Greene, in "Wide Awakeness and the Moral Life"

The fidelity to actual persons in the classroom; to a humility and tenderness driven by a profound love of people; to relating everything that is learned to a moral and social purpose; to the transformative role of teaching that connects children and adults with history, culture and the whole spectrum of human creations.