<p>Someone sent me the attached article. Excellent piece on leadership. Interesting to think about boarding school communities and which foster leaders, not merely achievers. </p>
<p>That was a very powerful speech, and every word of it was the absolute truth. Those lucky ducks at West Point-they got a great speech that they’ll always remember.</p>
<p>TP - that’s a seriously good lecture. I just forwarded it on to a bunch of folks. Thanks.</p>
<p>That was absolutely brilliant, thank you for sharing.</p>
<p>ThacherParenet - that’s one of the most thought-provoking pieces I’ve read in a long while. I suppose that there’s a scale in any boarding school between celebrating independent thinking on the one end and rewarding conformity on the other. Different schools intentionally or unintentionally choose to place themselves somewhere along that continuum. </p>
<p>Here’s the hyperlink by the way. For some reason, it doesn’t show in your posting. [Solitude</a> and Leadership: an article by William Deresiewicz | The American Scholar](<a href=“The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - <a href='https://theamericanscholar.org/author/william-deresiewicz/'>William Deresiewicz</a>”>The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - <a href='https://theamericanscholar.org/author/william-deresiewicz/'>William Deresiewicz</a>)</p>
<p>Love this. Thx for passing along.</p>
<p>Love it. I like the question you posed - leadership vs achievement. Brutal honesty with myself says I learned more about achievement than leadership in highschool. I think my kids will do better. </p>
<p>Speaking of “what do we really hope they learn”, a related question for me is “so what is academic rigor anyhow”. I have vague thoughts about it - nothing fully formed enough to write down in public. But I did find this - </p>
<p>[What</a> does academic rigor look like? | Casting Out Nines](<a href=“http://castingoutnines.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2008/12/19/what-does-academic-rigor-look-like/]What”>What does academic rigor look like? | Casting Out Nines)</p>
<p>I like the idea of thoroughness - kind of captures what you might hope to find in a colleague, for example. The idea of producing a solution, as opposed to an answer, also reminds me of some times in my work when that has happened, and also (painfully) some times when it has not. Anyone else have thoughts to share?</p>