I left private equity because my view was has to have, you know, a very long term approach, and I had suffered a personal tragedy in my life which made me reexamine what I wanted to do, and I decided that I wanted to try and build a school group.
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The mind of man is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch — Life of Alexander
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparent' ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
Alfred North Whitehead — The Aims of Education and Other Essays