Re: Update on the Merritt Lectures

[CBat...@aol.com]

Here is a great quote I can use at the conclusion of my lecture:

 

"We have to deal with the world of worry in which so many of our young people live and the constant struggle between hope and despair, by focusing on small successes, on local and incremental change, one handful of seeds, one child, one garden at a time."

 

by Michael Ableman (found in an Ecological Literacy book by CEL.)

 

He is so lovely. A farmer who dropped out of school and educated himself.

 

Cassie

 

Here is another good one he wrote:

 

"We can push our kids and grade them, judge them, and try to fit them into boxes, just as we design tomatoes more so that they fit shipping boxes than for taste or nutrition. But real learning and education will only come, I believe , when they are allowed to develop at their own speed given good nourishment and provided with a sense of belonging and place and some connection to the natural world."