Friday evening, I was fortunate enough to attend the 40th anniversary Founder’s Dinner for the elementary school my daughters attended.  My youngest, thankfully, is still there.  She only has a year left after this one, and already I can feel the size of the hole left in my life when I no longer have the community behind its Big Red Doors to mingle with every day.  This young woman, Brittany Packnett, was one of the speakers, an alumnus of the school who has gone on to make a difference in many more young lives as teacher in Washington D.C.  I was in tears as I listened to her, knowing that my girls are being blessed with the same underpinnings of which she so eloquently speaks.   This is what education for all children should be about. 

[Admin note: See also this related post on Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences]