So what do we think about The School That Oprah Built?
Not many hand-picked groups of 150 girls have $40 million standing behind their learning . . .
I heard about it on National Public Radio yesterday [1], and then today Newsweek arrived and Favorite Daughter read it to me [2] in the car. Quite the personal project. It reminds me of what Andre Agassi [3] has done with his school, in the sense that it's a very personal education project for disadvantaged kids he relates to, and Bill Gates [4] (with his new honorary title of most influential on education in the last decade), all of which then got me thinking about how major education benefactors have ALWAYS been major-factors, whether they turned out to be "bene" or not.
Stray thought - Walt Disney had special apartments built on Main Street USA for himself and his family, to watch benevolently over his world while children experienced it. Oprah is having a house built on the grounds of her South African campus so she can do the same. The only difference I see, is that Walt never SAID it was about Schooling instead of Dreaming.
I dream of the day we can enjoy the fulfillment of dreams without pretending it is School.
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