Typical day? Just kind of hang out in the old building.
Talk. Watch some video games.
I went up to the art room and hung out there.
My friends were drawing and I was just watching them draw.
They're sitting there talking about the memory
when Rusty threw up almost an entire hot dog
he hadn't even chewed it.
Just swallowed it.
Soon as you walk in there there's a billion things for you to do.
You can sit on the couch
you can read, you can talk.
Talking with someone.
And it can be the whole day I spend in one room
and I don't even realize it.
I think it's absolutely fundamental to the development
of kids.
You know they recently discovered that
babies need to be held and touched
physically as much as possible
for them to develop properly.
And I think that some day they're going to discover that
teenagers just have to talk.
Because otherwise their brains just don't fully develop.
You have one person in the front telling all the other people who aren't in the front
what to think and what to understand
and how to think about things
and I don't think that really works i terms of
teaching eloquence and teaching
real knowledge.
I talk to people.
Everybody has their own little nuggets of knowledge
that they have because they were interested in military history
or they find the ideas of Newton's Laws of Thermodynamics
fascinating, whatever that might be.
I talk to people and pick up what they have.
Which is what gives me
my wide-ranging understanding
of most of the basic concepts.
There is this ease in which they interact with one another
that I think isn't limited to the parameters of this school
that goes into an ease of interaction with
other people which I think is why
college entrance isn't that much of a hassle for
those who have had experience here.
There's a high amount of graduates who go on to college.