EYE OF THE HEART

Reading Eye of the Heart is like experiencing a wonderful, deep dream; the further you go the longer you want to stay. A paradoxical journey from elite Manhattan life to teaching slum children in Pakistan, Stephanie Flower invites her reader along for an intimate ride that will open your own heart’s eye. -Chris Abdul Rahman Blauvelt, Founder and CEO ofLaunchgood.com There are many ways to read Sommieh Flower’s memoir, but the most important one is not her conversion story, nor the contrast between the family and society into which she was born, and the societies in which she has lived during her adult life. For me as an educator, the most enduring contribution of the author is the vision of education–how to engage the young in an altruistic and uplifting kind of schooling…