Taking the time to perceive your reality with fresh wonder can change your life as often as you like. Our society is the result of our education. Daily, we act on what we believe and all of us together create the world we live in. Our beliefs have been formed out of what we have learned from our families, our friends, our schools and our experiences. And as we accept the idea of education as a lifelong adventure, our beliefs change and evolve into the creation of an ever-expanding society, in which truth is honored, diversity is celebrated and an enlightened peace becomes the touchstone of civilization.
Every child is born endowed with unique and unknown potential.
If we are truly sincere in wanting a better world for our children and their children and their children s children, then the highest purpose of education must be to bring to light, to enlighten that unique and unknown potential in every child. As teachers, the least of our responsibilities is to fill our students head with whatever we may have learned. The highest of our responsibilities is to guide our students toward discovering who they are and what they have to give to the world, so that rather than living their lives as victims of events, they may be able to direct their own lives and thus, together, direct the future of humanity. And this cannot be only the legacy of those blessed children who are privileged to attend elite and specialized schools. An enlightened education must become the birthright of all children in the world.