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Maine Times - Joe Gauld Presents His Educational Philosophy to the World (Joe Gauld Teaches Tough)

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Maine Times - Joe Gauld Presents His Educational Philosophy to the World Original: https://archive.org/details/mt-02-aug-1974-1/ and here https://archive.org/details/sim_maine-times_1974-08-02_6_44/ Joe Gauld promotes Bath's Hyde School and its character development program with the zeal of a salesman who has just conceived a better mousetrap. He exudes an evangelical fervor in his nonstop effort to convince Maine's educational leaders that Hyde, a grades 9-12 prep school, is the new model for what education can, and should be. Gauld, the founder, headmaster and spiritual leader of Hyde, believes that building a young person's character to cope successfully with a tumultuous world is every school's primary calling. Preparing a student for college admission should be almost incidental. "Hyde School was founded on a conviction that education must promote among young people a realization of their own potentialities and a respect for themselves as individuals," G