Self-worth the hard way

Special Issue | Bestselling author Michael Lewis on how teachers and coaches can help kids earn it | Marvin Olasky

Michael Lewis, 44, attended a private high school in New Orleans and encountered there Billy Fitzgerald, the school's life-changing baseball coach. Until then the teenage Lewis cared only about not caring, but he responded to the coach's passion and went on to attend Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He then had experiences as an investment banker for Salomon Brothers that he described in Liar's Poker and The Money Culture, and went on to write other books about people so passionate concerning their work—computerdom's Jim Clark, baseball's Billy Beane—that they create new ways to succeed in it. Mr. Lewis' new bestseller is Coach (Norton, 2005), about the life-changing success of Billy Fitzgerald, or Coach Fitz—that rare teacher with the ability to get inside a child's mind, as Mr. Lewis says, and stay there.

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