ABSTRACT
Th ere are not many books that I have read more than once. Walden comes to mind. So do Huckleberry Finn, Ishmael, and Th e Razor’s Edge. Of the books that I have read more than once, however, one stands out from the others. Th at book is Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (1966). It is the only book that I have literally worn out; the cover has broken away from the spine, and the glued binding is so cracked that, when I open the book, the pages fl op out in four separate clumps. I keep two undamaged copies of A Sand County Almanac in my university offi ce, but those are for loaning out or giving away. Each time I sit down to reread a particular section of A Sand County Almanac, I want to hold in my hands the ragged, barely functional copy that changed my thinking on education over 30 years ago.
