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Children & Education in the Berkshires / By Rodelinde Albrecht

12/01/2011

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What is education? It is how we develop the abilities of the mind, it is how we acquire the powers of reasoning and judgment, it is how we “learn to know.” As the Irish poet  William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) observed, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
     In this article, we shine our spotlight on three nonprofit organizations that light the fire of learning in our children. 


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