Lawrence Bangs
Author of an article in
Practical Homeschooling Magazine issue 11.
Lawrence B. Bangs is a native Vermonter who lives in the
Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. He received his B.S. in
Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in
1956, a Masters in Nuclear Physics form the University of
Akron in 1960 and completed all but his thesis for a
doctorate in Astrophysics at Rensselear Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, New York. He worked four years as a
research physicist for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
in Akron, Ohio. He has taught Physics at the University of
Massachusetts and at Williams College. He and his wife,
Joan, moved to a farm in northern Vermont (shown above) to
begin educating their own children at home. Their home education
program extended into Wildridge Academy as other children
sought their type of education. Wildridge has operated for
25 years and produced an alumni who have excelled in
academics and have mastered the joys of living. Today the
Bangs continue to operate Wildridge both in Vermont and in the Chicago area.
Homeschooling Articles by Lawrence Bangs
A Mind of Their Own A call to teach kids to lift their eyes away from virtual reality to the wonderful realities of the universe
