Creating a School
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING was called to teach at Harvard, his alma mater, in 1914. He had married Agnes Boyle O’Reilly in 1905; she was already a teacher, endowed with much of the humane fervor of her father. Toward the end of their first soring in Cambridge she embarked with his backing and aid on a parent-teacher experiment from which was to emerge the school now nationally known as Shady Hill. The spirit which they and their associates imparted to the instruction, and the principles which they evolved as they went along, deserve most thoughtful appreciation at this moment when so many classrooms in America are bursting at the seams. Perhaps once again it is a time when parents can help.