Foreword Reflections of a Ross School Graduate

At the landing of the great Daru Staircase in the Louvre, the Winged Victory of Samothrace statue is on grand display. Outside the Ross School in East Hampton, New York, feet away from my former high school classrooms, stands a copy of the original. On a ninth-grade class trip to Paris, our teacher...

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Published inEducating the Whole Child for the Whole World p. vii
Main Author NICK APPELBAUM
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States NYU Press 06.10.2010
New York University Press
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Summary:At the landing of the great Daru Staircase in the Louvre, the Winged Victory of Samothrace statue is on grand display. Outside the Ross School in East Hampton, New York, feet away from my former high school classrooms, stands a copy of the original. On a ninth-grade class trip to Paris, our teacher commented that we would likely be more intimately familiar with the statue than the majority of the Louvre’s visitors. We had studied Nike not only from books but from the beautiful replica, seeing it each day on our way to classes, and our teachers, representing a mix
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