"At one pole, a powerful education recognizes that children and adolescents are to be nurtured and trusted so they can become deeply engaged and involved in learning about themselves and developing their unique talents and convictions.
At the other pole, they become deeply engaged in the consequential work of our society, contributing to its growth and participating in the evolution of civilization.
What Park understands is that these are not contradictory forces?individual growth and social responsibility?but rather complementary and intricately interwoven processes.
What Park knows, and practices daily in its classrooms, is that by nurturing children, we can prepare students to become competent, caring adults committed to living life according to their values."
