The philosopher, George Berkeley, famously asked, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”  Recently, writing about the life of Samuel Steward, author of one successful book and many failed others, Jennifer Senior asks a similar

“Most American high schools are almost sadistically unhealthy places to send adolescents,” writes Jennifer Senior for New York magazine (http://nymag.com/news/features/high-school-2013-1/ze. Jan 20, 2013.) One reason, according to sociologist Robert Fari, who is quoted in the arti