Abuse trickles down from the top of the ladder to the bottom.

I taught the whole lesson wrong. I'm so sorry.

But we can also do something else. We can also make music with color.

And the children? Where are the children?

Here's a SOLE in action.

These are the faces of the children that I have tested with stories just like Justin.

He's an unusual dog.

I don't want to wake up the children.

You know,I grew up poor. Maybe a chapter on my dyslexia.

What you will see is their journey, and then their utter conviction that they could go out and change the world.

Either you're resilient and good at managing your emotions or you're not.

And we perfect, most dangerously, our children.

And it's been an incredible experience.

After three books on this, it got to be a bit much, in a way.

I don't know. Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer.

(Laughter)

BG

You are children.

That's a Haiti earthquake every eight days.

The worst, in 45.

It's just awful.

That's why they've given me confidence.

Great people have made commitments we will protect our children from want and from fear.

So at the end of the next four years,

like children's museum people.

Ah! The children of Darfur.

Teaching and learning should bring joy.

I am not so poor that I cannot send my son to college.

I mean, if you had to solve one of these problems, Chris, which would you solve?

We have the traffic police and municipal corporation helping us.

Poor as he is, he is happy.

I was born in a very poor home, a peasant home, so I experienced poverty.

He painted the walls and he painted the machine, and he got the operators retrained by people who know kids,

What is our most valuable possession on the planet?

So there was no job, no food.

You think it's obvious?

I knew him once, and he was weak, or strong, or bold or proud or gay.

Whatever, whatever. What does he look like?

And so we need more of this kind of structure and respect in the lives of our children.

The children soon fell into a sleep.

I'll go back and say, Yes, we need teachers for certain things.

Though she is poor, she is happy.

local people join hands to develop and support the school. Can you see these smiles on these children's faces?

It is the poorest county in the state.

I'm poor too.