Chapter 1: John H. Lounsbury: Conscience of the Middle School Movement

He is articulate in the way a poet is articulate. Not content to move his readers or listeners with soaring rhetoric, his artistry is in his precision. Just as the craftsman searches in his box for just the right tool, or the Zen master for the exact brush and quality of paper that will convey the power of simple thought, John Lounsbury stops and thinks. He listens to the silences in his world. And when he reaches into his personal well of genius, he finds just the right word or the most powerful phrase to convey a thought that is memorable for both the importance of its content and the eloquence of its expression.