leap, said Richard. What if you had to live your entire life inside a classroom? What if you did everything -- study, eat, grow up, mature, and even reach the golden years all while in school? That's exactly how Richard Kowles lived his life. Sixty-eight years have gone by and he has yet to get out of the classroom. That's what his new memoir, School, is all about. School is a new kind of memoir it's not about the student-teacher bond we are used to in classics such as Up the Down Staircase; The Prime of Miss Jean Bro; Goodbye; Mr. Chip;, To Sir, With Love; and The Blackboard Jungle it's the saga of a man seeing American history unfold through the windows of a school.

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