I am currently a student at Hampshire College and using my time to explore the possibilities of a global community that encourages young people to reach their full potential through education and not despite it.

 

I believe Humans learn through a process of personal transformation in relationship with others, and what we learn increases our capacity to participate in and contribute to society. 

 

Therefore, the task of public agencies is not to invent policy or implement education reforms across the nation, but rather to develop and unleash a capacity to innovate throughout the system. (Farrell, 1997)

 

The prevention of free inquiry is unavoidable so long as the purpose of education is to produce belief rather than thought, to compel the young to hold positive opinions on doubtful matters rather than let them see the doubtfulness and be encouraged to independence of mind. Education ought to foster the wish for the truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. The spontaneous wish to learn, which every normal child possesses, as shown in its efforts to walk and talk, should be the driving force in education.
(Bertrand Russell)

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This summer I intern at the Brower Youth Awards at Earth Island's New Leaders Initiative.  It is an amaizngly supportive and loving envirnonment.