The philosophy is similar. They connect with adults and keep going through middle and high school.

We try to make things relevant to the lives of students culturally and by teaching timeless truths. This allows us to be on their field, their turf.

We try to have an emphasis on experimental things.

I used to be really fat. When I was in middle school, I was 5-foot-11 and really big. I played football, but I really wasn't that good. I just didn't like to run a whole lot because I was so big.

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.