On Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:35:29 PM UTC-4, Burt Compton - Marfa Gliders, west Texas wrote:

Isn't "Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang Langewiesche or Richard Bach's short story "A School For Perfection" required reading at those schools?

Last Sunday, right after his first glider lesson, I overheard a 12 y.o. spouting something that he had read in "Stick and Rudder". There's hope.