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Collected Annual Meeting speeches of Nicholas S. Thacher, Headmaster, New Canaan Country School 1979 -2000 edited by Eric Garrison. |
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October 24, 1979 Education in the '80s - A Modern Trivium
October 28, 1980 Patience and Time
October r 29, 1981 Change at NCCS: Keeping Up with the Joneses
October 27, 1982 A Delicate Balance: Imagination & Reality
October 26, 1983 NCCS & the Secondary Year: Too Much of a Good Thing
October 24, 1984 The Cutie-Poo Specter: Anxiety & the Importance of Diversity
October 30, 1985 Free and Ordered Spaces: Balancing Structured and Free Time
October 29, 1986 The Ten-Year Evaluation
October 28, 1987 Literacy and Tradition: The Shape of Our School
October 26, 1988 Affluenza & Social Responsibility: the Whole Child and the Real World
October 25. 1989 Learning Lessons: Learning from Cruelty
October 24, 1990 Lessons from England: A Call to Tuck Things In
October 23, 1991 The Ultimate Bang for a Buck: What Does An NCCS Tuition Guarantee?
October 28, 1992 A Plea for Simplicity: Countering a Cornucopia Culture
October 27, 1993 Cultivating Children: A History of New Canaan Country School
October 26, 1994 Of Hot Air Balloons, Mickey Mouse, French Kissing, and Long Range Planning
October 25, 1995 Educating Children: Choices for the 21st Century
October 23, 1996 Beginnings and Endings: A Personal Odyssey
October 27, 1997 Thirteen All Too Soon
October 28, 1998 Windows and Real Lives: Building Community in a Digital Age
October 28, 1999 High Class Problems: The Tension Between the Perfect and the Possible