Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman is a parent of two boys aching to escape from New York City public schools. He is also a woodworker who runs his own furniture-making business in Brooklyn, and likes to do woodworking with kids. He has also been involved in anti-nuclear and anti-war organizing since 1977.Walter did not need any more reasons to admire Henry David Thoreau or Leo Tolstoy, but he found some when he read about the free schools they each started 150 or so years ago. Manhattan Free School will follow in their footsteps.