You Do The Right Thing Even If

In Order To Go On With Our Lives, We Are Always Capable Of Making The Ominous Into The Merely Strange.

I Usually Write About Ordinary People And Ordinary Things, But Paul Farmer Is The Least Ordinary Person I've Ever Met... He's The Leader Of A Small Group Of People Who Hope To Cure A Sick World, And I Hope My Book Can Help In Some Small Way.

And I Can Imagine Farmer Saying He Doesn't Care If No One Else Is Willing To Follow Their Example. He's Still Going To Make These Hikes, He'd Insist, Because If You Say That Seven Hours Is Too Long To Walk For Two Families Of Patients, You're Saying That Their Lives Matter Less Than Some Others', And The Idea That Some Lives Matter Less Is The Root Of All That's Wrong With The World.

I Am Grateful To Stacy Schiff First Of All Because She Can Write A Sentence-because She Offers Us Her Scholarship With Wit, Clarity, And Grace. Once Again, She Has Done What Only The Best Writers Can Do: She Has Made The World New, Again.

Most Teachers Have Little Control Over School Policy Or Curriculum Or Choice Of Texts Or Special Placement Of Students, But Most Have A Great Deal Of Autonomy Inside The Classroom. To A Degree Shared By Only A Few Other Occupations, Such As Police Work, Public Education Rests Precariously On The Skill And Virtue Of The People At The Bottom Of The Institutional Pyramid.