The perfectly named STILL WATERS provides children — and anyone who visits it — with a zone of quietness and peace in which everyone can hear himself think and everyone can listen to everyone else. The noise of traffic, the noise of machinery, the noise of televisions and radios and computers, the noise of strife and frustration, all stop at the door of this light-filled room. There is nothing there for the children but the other children, a few teachers and friends, and the written word. Each one is allowed and encouraged to sit and think, to write, and to listen to the others as they each read what they have written. And in this quiet listening, a possibility arises for a better kind of community than the one we know.

Wallace Shawn