A School Named for Thoreau

<p>Our school is named after Henry David Thoreau. The property on which the school is located is Camp Thoreau a children's summer camp. It is also our year round home. What is more the property is an old family farm which we try to keep in production. <p>Henry David Thoreau taught school himself for a few years. I would like to think that he might have approved of some of the things that we have done here although I know he would disapprove of the folly of owning a property of this size. Thoreau believed that owning a farm is a type of slavery. <p>Thoreau left behind some good advice for writers of books: The writer he said does not make books out of books but he has been there in person. Hence this record of the four years in which I directed the Thoreau School.