2018–2019 Red&Gold Magazine

A SPACE TO LEARN BY BURNS JONES, Headmaster

This past summer, I happened upon Pat Conroy’s memoir The Water is Wide that recounts his experience teaching in a one-room schoolhouse on a barrier island in South Carolina in the 1960s. To say that Conroy’s circumstances were challenging would be an understatement, and his success supports the adage that great teachers can teach anywhere.

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