Wendy K. Laidlaw

And kids like that that are in trouble are not thinking about that.

But inevitably, they say, what do you mean?

And then I would have to use my own intuition and figure out, well, I watched how you talked.

And I think you're a language person.

You know, I remember one gang leader said, what are you talking about?

What are you saying about me?

And I'm saying, I think you're a genius's words.

He goes, how do you know that?

I said, because you curse better than anyone in the group.

And, you know, he actually wound up going back and getting his high school degree and went to college and studied literature.

Because it was his genius.

And so it's that kind of evident in a way, but it's also mysterious and increasingly in the modern world, not understood.

And everybody's saying you have to go through school and get all your grades and all.

And that stuff is really good because they're socializing while they're getting the education.

But the word education is from the Latin, educare, and it means to lead it out, to lead it out.

The word instruction means to pack it in.

Most of school is packing it in.

A real teacher will lead it out.

And the it is the genius of the person that is waiting to be attended to and to be blessed.

And then when a person has that, they have a much greater sense that they are someone already, that their life has meaning, and that there may be a purpose to their entire being.