A Love Letter to Educators
by Hector Calderon
Sizer Fellow Hector Calderon is a co-founder of El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice, a public high school established in Brooklyn, New York in 1993 through a joint initiative by the New York City Board of Education and El Puente.
I once heard the poet Saul Williams say that, "Love is the Soul's Imagination." This definition of love has always moved me. Love requires an act of creativity, an act of invention from a deep place at the center of our being. It is from this place that I write this love letter to you. As an educator you have taken on the noblest cause in the world: the liberation of the human race. Liberation defined as the process of becoming fully human.