I’m about 1/2 way through the book Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson.  It’s a great book about his experiences helping to rebuild schools and bring peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  I love this passage and wanted to share this from the book:

“We had come into this stricken valley in order to build schools and to promote education, we were inviting the people of the area to become our teachers.  And in so doing, Sarfraz and I wound up relearning the lesson that had originally been imparted to me, all those years ago, by the silver-bearded Haji Ali in the village of Korphe.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it’s amazing what you can learn.  Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.”

You know when you hear a truth.  You get one of those heightened feelings.  He goes on in the book to relate a story of how they couldn’t figure out why students weren’t coming back to school.  It was a child that had the answer.

You can get your own copy at Stones into Schools

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