The Boss: Educator to the World
February 20, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
I ATTENDED a one-room schoolhouse in rural Minnesota in the 1950s. My grandparents, who were German immigrants, had no formal schooling, and my father had only an eighth-grade education. Education was the path up for my brother, sister and me. My father excused me from the dairy chores on our farm so I could concentrate on school.
Mark Ostow
Luther Luedtke, president and CEO of Education Development Center, Inc.
LUTHER S. LUEDTKE
Chairman and chief executive, the Education Development Center, Newton, Mass.
AGE 66
HONORARY TITLE Village chief of Nyankomase, Ghana
HOBBY Fixing things
My greatest influence, after my parents, was my teacher Mrs. Carlson. There were 15 kids in six grades in my school. My class, with four students, was the largest.
I still remember pulling “The Last of the Mohicans” off the shelf in our tiny library when I was in fifth grade. That same year, my birdhouses won an award at a county fair.
When I was 10, my father lent me to a neighbor to thresh wheat. I was a bargain because I came with a tractor. …
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