On Today's Starbucks Cup Musing

"The way I see it ...
A child's mind isn't a blank slate; it's more of a jungle. Each time a parent helps a toddler read, the child is walked through this jungle from one side to the other. Trip after trip, a seemigly impossible passage becomes a well-worn path. Children sent to kindergarten skipping merrily along this path to literacy fare far better than those sent to school with machetes."
-- Keith Mastrion, "Reading Man" and 1998 National Teacher of the Year.