Pablo Neruda averred that poetry is an action, ephemeral or solemn… sustained by an ever wider sense of community, by an effort which will for ever bring together the reality and the dreams in us.  The noble poet's vision remains my dearest hope for the Pierrepont School: a community for students and faculty in the scholarly conveyance between their inner presence and their desired futures, one that is worthy of their abiding efforts to articulate who they are, what they love. 

The polyglot world of my beginning has been diminished to the sole language in which I am meaningfully competent until this day.  It is the natal speech of my children resonant with long vanished ways of saying.  The primordial ingress to their cultural experience:  it is a delimited possible space that gives first step to their own ground.  Their gestures of finding remain pliant at a site of extinction and discovery.  They are miners and makers of language, nourishing a deep reverence for myriad symbolic languages.  This is the augury from which they experience their worlds made possible.

The Pierrepont School was born from my desire to engage this measure of multifoliate design in the education of my children.  It continues to be persuaded by a belief that the life of the mind, like Elizabeth Bishop's Imaginary Iceberg: cuts its facets from within.

                                        Icebergs behoove the soul
                                         (both being self-made from elements least visible)
                                        to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible.

The sacred, inviolate interior life of children is the element around which grow the minute particulars of a school's laurel.

Eleanor Chai Beer