The key to raising children well, as well as to being a superb teacher in a school, revolves around one simple quality—presence.

When we know how to be present in our own being, it changes completely the dynamic between ourselves and the children whose upbringing and education are entrusted to us.

Yesterday we began talking about the school system, a theme I want to pick up again by going back to a movie I enjoyed at the time it first came out, then watched again last evening—Mr. Holland’s Opus.