There’s a tiny boarding school in Vermont where students work on a dairy farm and can live in cabins without electricity — and it produced one of the most influential billionaires in Silicon Valley

Posted November 22, 2017 BusinessMediaguide.Com

The Putney School, located in southern Vermont, is small and located on a dairy farm.
The 238 students there must work on the farm and in other jobs to graduate.
They don’t learn their grades until halfway through high school.

Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a Greylock Partners investor, always had an independent streak. At 12, he applied to The Putney School, a tiny boarding school in southern Vermont, without telling his parents.

“Part of what appealed to me about Putney was that in addition to having academics, it was doing blacksmithing and woodworking read more >>>

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