While common to the caste-like system of Persia, prostration was something the freedom-loving Greeks scorned.

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That's a lot of fast number-crunching: Microsoft figures there are something like 10 to the 23rd power "degrees of freedom, " or possible positions, for a human body.

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When something like that happens it has an effect on everyone because it threatens our safety and our freedom to gather as a group, and that's part of what makes us human.

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But if she's right, and if Oprah can examine the successes of something like the Algebra Project or Detroit Summer--both built on the model of the freedom schools of the civil rights movement--then perhaps we can move beyond the realm of midday talk shows into something much more substantive: a sustainable movement that will remake our schools for the better.

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