Sublime

People need to be encouraged. Eugene Lang believed in these kids and it made all the difference in how they lived the rest of their lives. The article goes on to show Lang’s impact: Lang’s students speak confidently of becoming architects, computer experts, entrepreneurs of all types.

The last one, a bony-looking man with dark hair and a broken nose, looked vaguely familiar. Five days later, the same photo would flash on news screens across the country. The man was Ibragim Todashev, and an FBI agent had shot him dead.

The master of the academy, William Weatherald, had a major impact on the boy, implanting in him a love of literature and the essentials of mathematics and other practical sciences and fostering more than a little of the gentle religiosity of Quakerism.