by Amy LeForge | Jan 8, 2013 | Education
When I was a kid I read a short story by Ray Bradbury called A Sound of Thunder. The story was fascinating, a tale of time travel with a terrifying lesson about ripple effects. One small event, one that, at the time, seemed so trivial and irrelevant, ended up...
by Amy LeForge | Jan 5, 2013 | Education
Attending a boarding school can give a child several advantages compared to a public school. The education, athletics, and activities all make up an experience that is difficult to duplicate. 1) No Pressure While a public school tends to organize cliques and social...
by Amy LeForge | Dec 21, 2012 | Education
There’s something about the calendar flipping over to a new year that motivates people to attempt personal overhauls. Some declare that they’ll stop smoking or that they’ll drop twenty pounds; others promise that they’ll cut back on time devoted to television or...
by Amy LeForge | Dec 17, 2012 | Education
He was tall, lanky, in his early 20s, and might’ve had a plug of tobacco behind his lower lip; I couldn’t tell for sure. His wife had come to the book store in order to get one of my books signed, and it was quite clear that he was merely tagging along. While I shook...
by Amy LeForge | Dec 4, 2012 | Education
I listened to an interview with a professional baseball player, a pitcher who said his job was to work only in the seventh inning. Not the sixth inning, not the eighth or ninth; no, if he didn’t pitch just that one particular inning, he claimed, “I don’t know my...
by Amy LeForge | Nov 27, 2012 | Education
“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” – John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. It’s easy to associate Gardner’s observation with adults. When we see the phrase “stop...
