We greet them all with the same basic recipe for success: high standards, stiff challenges, a chance to develop unexplored talents, and a message that many of them haven’t heard before — that no matter how difficult the circumstances of their lives may be, no matter how many bad assumptions they’ve made about their chances in life, no matter how well they’ve been taught to rein in their dreams and narrow their aspirations, they have the right, and the potential, to expect to live rich and satisfying lives.
Bill Strickland, a three-time Harvard Business School case study and a MacArthur Genius Award winner, has changed the lives of thousands of disadvantaged urban teens and welfare mothers with his world-class arts centers and career training centers. Via Social Edge.
