Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.
Tracy Kidder... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
Tracy KidderThat's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
Tracy KidderI'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
Tracy KidderMost teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
Tracy Kidder