The (true) cost of things

The first job of Henry David Thoreau, an exceptional student at Harvard University, led him to teach at the public school in the city of Concord, Massachusetts. It was 1837. He endured two weeks. It was unacceptable for the students to be subjected to corporal punishment, which led them to take long walks. The report given by the authorities about his brief stay at school called him “a threat to school discipline, in particular, and a danger to …