real change

"In many ways Pam and Ira are ordinary people. They reflect on their own experiences as students and realize that they were drastically different. Each of them had their own good fortune and bad luck with their own schooling, just like everyone else. What makes them extraordinary is that they took their reflections many steps further. When they became educators, they realized that they had the power to make changes, to make schools a better place for children like them. Then they went beyond the realization and took actions.

Yong Zhao - in his foreword to Timeless Learning