As a former nanny, I love working with kids and teenagers. My love for writing and words began when I was around eight years-old. W.B. Yeats claimed "education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." Every individual has curiosities and topics that can be used to compel learning.

The public education system does not provide the individual study of character that is often needed to help students flourish. With each individual, I seek to learn how mastery of learning will...