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| Families "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children." --John Dewey When introducing a slide show she had helped prepare for The Academy's twentieth anniversary celebration, Maisie Todd '89 had this to say about her own "best and wisest parents": "I also saw the people who weren't always in the photographs: our parents. As they enrolled each one of us, they seemed to know that they were giving us not just a strong, classical education, but one without pretension, with many challenges, and a lot of life. They asked us to be part of a school that expected us to both write an honor code and shovel snow. The latter, of course, was a punishment for not following the former. That made us more interesting people. But all of them, parents and teachers alike, gave us a sense that the world could be bent or altered to our desires as long as we did it with humility, resourcefulness, intelligence, and responsibility." |
