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Drawing Forth is dedicated to support the best of what it means to educate. The Latin root of the word educate (edu-care) means to draw forth. It is my belief that the essence of education is a process of drawing forth the best in each human being. My name is Steven Fletcher and this site hosts my blog along with links to some sites I support, host or just plain love!

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No human can ever adequately describe another or even describe one's own self. We are all a lot worse and a lot better than anything that's ever been said about us. Never-the-less, here is a sketch of myself.

I was born in a small town in northern California (Healdsburg), the son of a great teacher, Robert Fletcher (a real educator) and a mother Frances (Green) Fletcher, who was not just my mother, but my spiritual guide. They both inspired me in ways that this sketch can't do justice to.

When I was 16 we moved to Palo Alto, California so my father could go to Stanford and get his PhD. He was 50 years old. After a year at Palo Alto High School, I got a great job at Beckman Instruments and attended Foothill College. I had a few good teachers and one that was a great teacher. That great teacher was Mrs. Connie Mundrick. (If anyone knows where she is please contact me so I can drop whatever I am doing and go visit her to say thank you.) After two English courses with Mrs. Mundrick I began to write poetry continuously. Then came songs, then many years later, short stories. There are many events in my life that this sketch does not have room for. Suffice it to say that after that experience there was life in Canada, Swaziland, Chuuk, Lesotho, South Africa, China and a lot of travel in between. Oh, and two wonderful children, Themba and Thabo and two wonderful daughters- in-law, Kerri and Jenifer, and two grandchildren, Emmett and Samuel.

Now, I am living in China - teaching at a university and, I guess, following in my father's footsteps. Also along the way there was a BA degree in Expressive Arts and an MA on the use of stories for healing and growth, plus a number of business and non-profit enterprises. A couple of anthologies of short stories are still in print along with five CD's. (You can get them from Peaceful Pages). Now, along with my teaching, I am working on a PhD and a book called Story Centric Education. I plan to complete both by June 2012. The next planned project is a book of children's stories.

I love music and I love education and I love cultures. By cultures I don't mean the opera and the theater, but the way common people think and live - wherever they live - in huts made of mud with smiles on their faces and working in their sun-bleached fishing boats. If you're interested there is more of my philosophical musings on my blog. You're always welcome here.