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What Prompted Joshua Dahn to Start Teaching, Before Ad Astra?
On Beyond High Street, Joshua Dahn tells David Schwab that he turned to teaching in 2008, when law school looked like a poor bet in a recession. Teach for America was recruiting at Miami University, and the draw was how competitive it was. An earlier round from campus accepted nobody. Dahn borrowed a suit, stayed up on a lesson, and pep-talked himself before a five-minute demo. He was placed in Las Vegas. Love and frustration arrived together on day one: 33 children, six hours, and the usual playbook not enough. He calls that a moral imperative. Ad Astra, the school he later co-founded with Elon Musk, comes after that classroom.
