ABSTRACT
An excerpt of an interview with Ann Margaret Sharp conducted November 11–12, 2008, by Peter Shea. Sharp describes her and her husband’s position as a house parents for a group of mentally challenged, high-IQ teenaged boys residing at Hampshire Country School. The couple developed a living-learning community with these boys, and Sharp engaged them in communal inquiry in the evenings. Sharp was also teaching at the Notre Dame College for Women at the time, and the boys helped her to read and assess the work of her college students as part of their own education.
