John B. Willett
John Barry Willett is an emeritus professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Education and a member of the National Academy of Education who specialized in the teaching, development and application of innovative quantitative methods in the social sciences.
Willett was born in 1947 in the city of Leeds, in the county of Yorkshire, England, and raised from the age of 10 in the nearby town of Harrogate. In Harrogate, he attended Woodlands Elementary School and completed his secondary education at Harrogate Grammar School, eventually serving as Head Boy and Captain of the Rugby Team. Subsequently, he received an Open Venning Exhibition to study physics, specializing in quantum mechanics, at Worcester College, Oxford University. He went up to Oxford in 1967, graduating with a degree in physics in 1970. In 1971, after a further year of study at Oxford, he earned a certificate in education, to become a teacher of physics and mathematics. Then, briefly, in 1970, after a decade of playing acoustic folk and blues in amateur bands and clubs in both Yorkshire and Oxford, Willett became a professional musician, playing bass guitar in the short-lived rock n'roll band, e.
Willett was born in 1947 in the city of Leeds, in the county of Yorkshire, England, and raised from the age of 10 in the nearby town of Harrogate. In Harrogate, he attended Woodlands Elementary School and completed his secondary education at Harrogate Grammar School, eventually serving as Head Boy and Captain of the Rugby Team. Subsequently, he received an Open Venning Exhibition to study physics, specializing in quantum mechanics, at Worcester College, Oxford University. He went up to Oxford in 1967, graduating with a degree in physics in 1970. In 1971, after a further year of study at Oxford, he earned a certificate in education, to become a teacher of physics and mathematics. Then, briefly, in 1970, after a decade of playing acoustic folk and blues in amateur bands and clubs in both Yorkshire and Oxford, Willett became a professional musician, playing bass guitar in the short-lived rock n'roll band, e.
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