The single-minded notion that education should lead to an economically quantifiable product of a person illustrates our collective inability to recognize the spirit of motherhood, the spirit of women, and The Spirit all together. Our mothers either make us or break us. They mold the way we behave, the values we embody and the very person we become. A mother is as powerful as God herself. For, unless humans become more in tune with their spiritual essence of kindness and compassion, as taught through that nurturing known as mothering, the laws that govern us as well as the economy that sustains us will be void of substance and integrity. Without our mother’s we would not be the feminists we are, we would not become the teachers who change lives, the women who run Fortune 500 companies, the politicians who fight to change policy, nor the mothers of future generations of heroes, jet setters, and activists.
So please forgive me if I feel that staying home to raise my daughter to be an intelligent young woman who may seek one day to educate herself at Yale or Harvard only to later embrace motherhood herself, is the highest calling of all.
[1] Yahoo News. “Women and Babies at Yale.” Maggie Gallagher. Tuesday September 27, 2005.
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