Preface

courtesy of 'the Gandhi of Sicily'

There are those who teach
by leading people like horses
each step of the way:
and there are those who like
to be guided like that.
There are those who teach by praising
the good and by having fun:
and some people enjoy
this kind of support.
And then there are those
who educate without hiding
the absurdities of the world, open
to change yet sincere
with others as with themselves,
who dream for others of a different life:
people only grow if dreamed for.

—Danilo Dolci (1924-1997)
translated by Oonagh Stranksy
quoted in Roberto Saviano’s Beauty & the Inferno