One thing he brought up was philosophy. You have a room full of HG kids and he has them read certain philosophers and they discuss concepts. So you have an interaction between the kids. You had a room full of super bright kids discussing, interacting. That opens the mind a lot.
Not only are they thinking, and hearing, but they get the experience of expressing themselves and debating. Sorry, Friday afternoon and I decided to have a glass of wine.
But the excitement of learning was was struck me. And that is what we hope for the most. When I saw that documentary on the founding of Microsoft, it was the energy between Paul Allen and Bill Gates that started it. These were two geeky kids starting out in high school and both interest in computers. So they became best friends and spent all their time figuring out this mainframe system of IBM and became the global experts for IBM by grade 11. It was just a hobby for 2 high school kids. But it that energy I saw there.
I know that option is not always available. And we do the best we can. I hope that DD ends up there for K in 2009.
Ren
