Valuing Children—Each and All

Abstract

In this article, Himley traces the development of Patricia F. Carini’s philosophy of education and the descriptive processes she developed with others at the Prospect School in North Bennington, Vermont. The article introduces these big ideas through publications by Pat and others connected to Prospect—the person as active maker of meaning, the dialogic interanimation of the person and world, the making of works as our common human enterprise, and a humane education based on this human capacity, widely distributed. Throughout the article, in her own words, we hear Pat’s fierce voice as she calls for us to join together in the ongoing struggle for a humane education for children—for each and for all.