Andrew Bliss
Born and raised in St. Louis, Andrew went to Wheaton College. After graduating in 2014 with a B.S. in Chemistry, he worked at a patent law firm for a year before becoming a teacher at Clapham School with his wife, Stephanie. He taught at Clapham for two years, mostly middle school and high school science and math (but also, in good liberal arts fashion, some Bible, history, geography, composer study, nature study, and artist study). He then moved back to St. Louis to pursue a career in medicine and will graduate as a Physician Assistant in 2021 from Southern Illinois University of Carbondale.
One unhelpful way to view education is this: that our job as educators is to infuse knowledge into kids’ minds, to pepper them with facts until they can dutifully fill in the blank on a test and receive that laudable A. The goal here for students is...
