When I see a modern-day, first-grade classroom I shudder and am thankful that when I was a kid in the 1970s we had desks in rows facing the teacher. Today there

When I see a modern-day, first-grade classroom I shudder and am thankful that when I was a kid in the 1970s we had desks in rows facing the teacher. Today there are no desks and everybody sits in a circle on the floor. Primary education: For extroverts, by extroverts.