Education in Memphis and Shelby County

In the midst of all the turmoil over Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools and charter schools and private schools and school boards and school administration and teachers...well, you get the picture, this quote from the scholar and educator Edith Hamilton is appropriate:

"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life.  to be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is to be educated."