Tomorrow I get up real early for the Eureka Springs Rotary Club's breakfast meeting. I am this month's guest speaker, and I always enjoy the opportunity to practice with friends. I know that some day I'll have to describe the Wisdom of the Hands program to a larger audience, and perhaps even defend it against detractors. So to talk about these things with an audience of friendly faces is a welcomed experience. And as I do more of it, my natural nervousness goes away.

How do I reduce all this, however, to a 20 minute presentation? I have to choose the points that are most relevant to the audience, and having spoken there before I know that they will be a cross section of business leaders from our community, a smattering of educators, health care specialists and retired executives.

So my talk will be about the role of independent schools in sustaining creativity in the teaching profession and how this fits the education of the hand and heart. I'll take a PowerPoint presentation that I'll go through very quickly, then some notes about the hands in learning and then finish with the recent article about the need for creativity in schools.