discussion starter - brief slides with text excerpts from The Power to Transform by Stephanie Pace Marshall.

2. Yet within the current conditions of schooling, and despite the efforts of the best of our teachers, our children often feel inadequate as learners and isolated and estranged from learning. Far too many emerge intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually disconnected from the natural world, their communities, and their own abundant potentials. They have little sense of meaning, wholeness, connectedness, and belonging.

3. There has never been a more important time to reperceive and redesign schooling and the context and conditions within which the minds, hearts, and spirits of our children and our future are grown. The human future will be defined by our children’s minds and the nature and quality of their presence on the earth.