Teacher turns 'crazy idea' into new school on CNN.com resonated with me. It really goes to the heart of what private education is all about. Private education is intrinsically about 'crazy ideas'. I prefer to think of these not as crazy ideas, but as the dreams of passionate teachers and parents who sought to teach children in new and, hopefully, better ways.
Whether it was the Phillips family who founded those great flagships of American private education, Andover and Exeter, or Lucy Madeira and Maria Harrison Bissell Hotchkiss who started The Madeira School and The Hotchkiss School respectively, those determined men and women who believed that their 'crazy idea' would produce a better learning environment, better educated children and in the long run, a better nation.
What do you think? Is this teacher's idea really 'crazy'?
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