Do it and the Money Will Come

摘要

My wife Karen has decided that she wants to start a school. It's not like it's an unreasonable goal. She was a teacher years ago, when we were first married. She retired to raise and educate our own children, and then, several years ago when our youngest was grown, she went back to work at a public school. She will soon finish her master's degree in education. I'm writing about this in Clay Times because, on the surface, quitting your teaching job (with its security, vacation time, and health and retirement benefits) to start an unfunded school without so much as a classroom building, makes about as much sense as giving up a good job to become a potter. That is to say, economically speaking, it pretty much makes no sense.