Become Someone You Can Admire
We wonder how to be in the world. What to do. Where to go. We spend our lives…
Category: capacity for change
Getting Over It
The year spreads out ahead and it’s clean now. The slate scrubbed with shame and judgement. We need…
An Understanding Heart…
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with…
Learning to Live Together
Reciprocity – the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit – is widely recognised as an important feature…
Peace on Earth – Goodwill to Girls
Rape is used to destroy not just individuals but entire communities. Rape is so commonly used as a weapon…
Educate Girls and Change the World
There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls. Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary…
The Roots of Rights
On December 10th, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Nowadays,…
Did You Know…
Did you know that The Cat in the Hat was written in 1954 using the reading vocabulary of…
Going Your Own Way
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction…
Making a New Reality
We sometimes mistake the way things are for the way they have to be. Even when our institutions…