ABSTRACT
From 1989 to 1990 would be a busy year, including the faculty institute, the first volume of the journal, and the first rotation of membership and leader ship. In early October, Catherine and Diane prepared for the first NFDC meeting, which again was at the Network office. Diane was thinking about the upcoming faculty institute and the talk she would give there. She wanted to present the story of Prometheus as a metaphorical explanation for the roots of human community, and to help teachers recognize that they-because of their isolation-needed community with one another. She wanted them to imagine new ways of acting, being, and relating; and to use their compassion for children and each other to motivate audacious ac tion to change the profession.
