My earliest memories are of school, and I feel I’ve never not actively been going to school. The son of two public school teachers and the nephew of a half dozen more, my eighteen or so years, formally, as a student, and a career of over forty years in and around schools have given me plenty of opportunities to try to distill to fundamentals the components of a healthy, successful school. Students need to learn to believe in themselves and to care about others, I’ve concluded. They need t...
