I credit my years at Atheneum for encouraging precisely this sort of enthusiasm about this depth of study — the teachers, other students, community, trips, Great Learning, and of course the texts themselves — all set the stage for the kinds of observation, awareness, and questioning that are so integral a part of healing, learning, and life itself. (Hmm, I just noticed that I have the same Latin dictionary on my desk that I got for my first quarter in 6th grade… and have many more intimate book-friends dating to Atheneum days on my shelf!)
The farther I go in my education, the happier I am to have been at Atheneum and the luckier I realize I am to have had such an opportunity at that age; it has truly deepened every aspect of my higher education and my very way of living and engaging with the world — in interactions with other people, ideas, cultures, practices, and my own sense of self.
