‘Approaching the Elephant’ Is an Exciting Chronicle of Free Schooling and Chaos

Kids like to swear. That’s probably because they’re frequently told not to, but the appeal hardly dissipates once they’ve been placed in a more relaxed environment. They just get more excited about it.

This is only one of the smaller revelations of Amanda Rose Wilder’s extraordinary Approaching the Elephant, but it’s illustrative. At the Terry McArdle Fr…