How can we create schools that reinforce each child’s joy of life, curiosity, individuality, the natural conviction of his or her own self-worth and the worth of others—and that meet the highest academic standards as well? Rebeca Wild, a principal in a Pestalozzi school in Ecuador—the model for a grassroots educational movement in several European countries—reveals how the children in her Pesta classroom experience reading, writing, and mathematics, as well as art, music, geography, the natural sciences, social issues, even matters of life and death …