“I have a more important job than you,” said Claude, the month he turned five. “My job is to make the world a better place.”
Nothing is more valid, more urgent and yet often more unreal than listening to what kids actually say. I found myself thinking about how hard it is to make the world a better place, how hard it is to make a living that way, and how hard it is to decide whose work is the most important. And yet — before I get carried away in skepticism — what could be more serious than listening to the voices that are destined inevitably to replace our own?