"Go with the people.
Live with them.
Learn from them.
Love them,
Start with what they know.
Build with what they have.
But of the best leaders
When the job is done, the
task accomplished,
The people will all say,
We have done this
ourselves."

Lao Tsu, China, 700 B.C.; South West African People’s Organization as cited in: Auerbach, Making meaning, making change: Participatory curriculum development for adult ESL literacy. (Washington, DC and McHenry, IL: Center for Applied Linguistics and Delta Systems, 1992.) Used with permission.