School Of Thought Podcast

Tom Schulman is a screenwriter from Los Angeles. He is best known for writing the screenplays for classic films such as Dead Poets Society, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and What About Bob?. His screenplay for Dead Poets Society won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989, and was his first movie script to reach the big screen. This script is semi-autobiographical, based on his experiences in the classroom of Sam Pickering, one of his teachers at a prep school in Nashville, Tennessee. Pickering himself is a writer of many books, including a very good one on teaching called Letters to a Teacher.   Episode Links More about Tom Schulman: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0776114/ Letters to a Teacher by Sam Pickering: https://groveatlantic.com/book/letters-to-a-teacher/