She sat on the steps of the municipal offices and waited for the world to change.

Sitting and waiting, it seems, was the powerful external force that broke the inertia; that converted a tendency to do nothing into the need to do something.

A simple message, an impassioned plea and things really did change.

Some have said, “Where is education’s Greta?”

Where indeed.

Who will sit on the steps of local government offices and declare an education emergency? Who will signal, through calm and quiet defiance, that enough is enough?

So far, no one we have taught, so we must teach on…