Today's young athletes often behave in a manner reflecting poor mental toughness and conduct. A look at the Los Alamos Ranch School teaches how to train resilience and character.
Character and health were fundamental to progressive education and exemplified by the Los Alamos Ranch School.
A frontal view of the home of J. Robert Oppenheimer during his tenure as Director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and atom bomb development. It previously served as school administrative faculty housing at the Los Alamos Ranch School. Educator and scholar John Dewey was a major voice in the progressive education movement. Dewey advocated whole-person education, including “moral character,” defined by “shared social relationships, the disposition to determine one’s conduct and attitudes with reference to the welfare of the group” . As LARS described it, according to Wirth and Aldrich, “It was in the quality of one’s relationships with others that character was most clearly revealed.
Another means of training selflessness was equine care. Each student was assigned a horse to care for and ride. Boys were required to tend to their horse before their own needs. It was another way of training unselfish, responsible behavior and character.Parents back then sent their kids to private schools to get them away from pampered home environs.
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