By Cindy Hansen
"If you've had the experience of binding a book, knitting a sock, playing a recorder, then you feel that you can build a rocket ship — or learn a software program you've never touched. It's not bravado, just a quiet confidence. There is nothing you can't do. Why couldn't you? Why couldn't anybody?" — Peter Nitze, Waldorf and Harvard graduate, and director of an aerospace company.
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