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His Name is Today
December 2, 2011
Children are the only form of immortality we can be sure of.
-Peter Ustinov
The web site of the Bernard van Leer Foundation in the Netherlands contains a very well presented case for the importance of early childhood education in a section that leads off with the poem, "His Name is Today" by Gabriela Mistral, a Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile:

"We are guilty of many errors and many faults,
But our worst crime is abandoning the children,
Neglecting the fountain of life.
Many of the things we need can wait.
Right now is the time his bones are being formed,
His blood is being made,
And his senses are being developed.
To him we cannot answer 'tomorrow'
His name is Today."





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Comments (5)

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Exchange Press · December 08, 2011
United States


Thank you to those of you who pointed out our typo in the name of the author. We have corrected it and issue our apologies.

Eve Sullivan · December 02, 2011
Parents Forum
Cambridge, MA, United States


Children need love and guidance today and so do parents!
http://bit.ly/vdPhdv
(and thanks to previous commentors for pointing out that it was a women who wrote the poem!)

Mav Pardee · December 02, 2011
Children's Investment Fund
United States


Just a note: The Chilean poet who wrote the poem, "His Name is Today", was a woman, Gabriella Mistral, rather than Gabriel. She was the first Latin American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, and undoubtedly one of the first women to do so.

Howie Baker · December 02, 2011
Lemberg Children's Center
Waltham, MA, United States


Thank you for sharing this poem by Gabriel Mistral. - Howie

Caty · December 02, 2011
Santiago, Chile


The name of this poet is Gabriela Mistral.



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