Reasons For Camp (School Too?)

Here is a great article about the importance of camp. The best quote:

Over those same years, I've been repeatedly amazed by how many grown-ups did their most important growing up at camp. Out from under expectations at home (especially the self-fulfilling ones), they blossomed and bloomed into what they otherwise might never have become. Their weeks at summer camp, they'll tell you, sometimes shaped them as much or more than all the rest of the year combined. Which is why, every year, I write a cheque to help send inner-city kids to camp. They may never have heard the word “epiphany,” but they just might experience what it means.

How could we say the same about schools? How do we make schools a place where everyone is constantly growing up?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/summer-camp-launched-my-career/article1535897/

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