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Saturday, October 3, 2015

Hans Holbein, Moxie, Joshua Steckel



Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

—Langston Hughes, “Dreams”


But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

—Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World

Josh began his job at the Secondary School for Research with the hope that in helping his students get into college, he would help them get out of poverty. It is still too soon to assess what college will bring them in the economic terms most often used to measure the value of an academic credential. But in following the lives of the ten students in this book through their college years, Josh saw the value all found in their own search for meaning. Each explored, in highly personal ways, how they could be themselves and give to others. The road to this fundamental human quest should be open to everyone.

Zasloff, Beth; Steckel, Joshua (Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty (p. 297). The New Press. Kindle Edition.  

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