David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

guessing your first reaction would be
that she has a group of unruly children.
Maybe she teaches in a school in a poor
neighborhood and her students come
from troubled families. Maybe her
students come to school without any real
respect for authority or learning. Leites
and Wolf would say that she really
needs to use some discipline. Children
like that need a firm hand. They need
rules. If there is no order in the
classroom, how can any learning take
place?
The truth is, though, that Stella’s
school isn’t in some terrible
neighborhood. Her students aren’t
particularly or unusually unruly. When
the class begins, they are perfectly well