Pieces of Inspiration

T. Berry Brazelton, MD:
"Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply."


President William J. Clinton:
"The promise of our future is limitless. But we cannot realize that promise if we allow the hum of our prosperity to lull us into complacency. How we fare as a nation far into the 21st century depends upon what we do as a nation today." State of the Union Address, 1999


"Now, we all know that in all of our communities, some of our children simply don't have what they need to grow and learn in their own homes or schools or neighborhoods. And that means the rest of us must do more, for they are our children, too." ~ State of the Union Address, 1997 


Louise Derman-Sparks:
"I had a built in passion that it was important to make a contribution to the world, to fix all the injustices in the world.  I wanted to do that through teaching." ~Laureate video, "The Passion for Early Childhood"