Island Life Magazine Ltd February/March 2009 | Page 25

INTERVIEW

mentor – Pru Lee.”
Yet while she loves to nurture
the students she can’t suppress
her frustration at the way
children are limited in their
dreams.
“I would love core values to
be taught, where children learn
to love themselves and follow
their dreams rather than be told
to be realistic the whole time.
Youngsters today don’t dream
big enough. They might achieve
their goal but their goal is low
and it should be sky high.” She
believes limiting aspirations
is part and parcel of our
materialistic outlook on life, that
taking risks is discouraged for
fear children limit their earning
potential. “But people aren’t
bank managers or teachers,
that’s just a label.”
Charlotte believes you should
never tell yourself you can’t do
something. She believes that by
fostering a positive outlook –
mixing with happy people and
consciously retaining the feeling

life

of laughter or peace – we can
achieve whatever we want.
And she certainly couldn’t be
accused of hypocrisy. Charlotte’s
life to date is an explosion of
ideas followed up, of scripts
not just thought of but written,