The Forest for the Trees

  Sounds like a book title, doesn't it? Finding Educational Purpose in the Age of Pandemic . Talk about pretense, ambition. The last year has certainly been a challenging one in America.  From pandemics to contested elections to street choirs singing of justice, the immediacy of our frailty as people and a people is on full display.  Behaviors and services that were taken for granted are lamented by many. Full bellies, clean water and warm beds are tenuous at best for far too many children in the richest nation on earth. The loneliness of death has never been more pronounced.  At the risk sounding overdramatic, it's a time when there should be as many existential crises as there are people.  Certainly in the world of education, if we aren't asking ourselves  why  then we aren't performing our vocation sincerely. Even during a "normal" year, we should be asking that question more than any other. If we aren't reflecting on  why,  we will ...