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Good Medicine
Daniel Brewster’s favorite classroom in the world is an empty pool in Esteli, Nicaragua. He studies a photo from that day and tries not to tear up. In the image, it’s a warm night. The students are in shorts and short sleeves. There’s a backdrop of lush, tropical greenery. The pool is dry save for a few puddles, and the light from the buildings around them is dim. Everyone looks bone tired. Not just from whatever labor or traveling they’d done, but from the experience itself. The experience of fully breaking out of the comfortable enclave of campus and into a very different reality. Still, every student is intently listening. Perhaps more so than in any other class they’d ever attended.
