The Story Of Civilization

I urge the families that come to Woodland Park to think of our school as an old fashioned neighborhood, the kind that I know existed because I lived in one: a neighborhood in which children spent their days roaming from yard to yard, gathering up friends and playing with them.

In one sense we felt we were alone out there with the other children, as we practiced being human beings together, but we also knew that everywhere we went, there was a mom standing in the window, keeping an eye on us as she washed the dishes or folded the laundry.

That was our preschool and so long as there were other kids, we were learning what we needed to know to build civilization.

"Civilization is a stream with banks.

The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting, and doing things historians usually record -- while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry, whittle statues.

The story of civilization is what happens on the banks."  ~Will Durant

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