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High School Success (opens the original)
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This essay is part of a series entitled “Life Prep.”In the past two essays in the series on High School as Life Prep, we considered the topic from a 30,000-foot view. We looked at the purpose and meaning of life, developing a life plan, and the danger of the “perfect life fallacy.” In this essay and the several that follow it, we turn our attention to the more immediate reality of the high school years themselves.<a class="im
The Perfect Life Fallacy (opens the original)
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This essay is part of a series entitled “Life Prep.”“I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel an appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka—and at one time
Helping Your Son Discover the Meaning of His Life (opens the original)
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This essay is part of a series entitled “Life Prep.”“I have my mission—I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. . . . I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught.”–John Henry NewmanOliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the well-respected supreme court justice who served nearly thirty years in the first decades of the twentieth century, though a sharp legal intellect, w
Life Prep: Introduction to the Series (opens the original)
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This essay is part of a series entitled “Life Prep.”When I first started out in education some forty years ago, I rarely, if ever, heard the young men in my classes say they were stressed. Perhaps they were—though they did not seem to be.Today, it would be surprising for a teacher to go a day without hearing at least one student at his school say they are stressed about something. This makes sense, given the fact that according to the CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mental-health/about-data/men
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