Recently, one of my stepsons was home from college for a weekend and Harry Chapin’s “Cats in the Cradle” came on the Pandora station we were listening to. We started talking about relationships between fathers and sons, about how fortunate my stepsons have been to have their father in their lives and how that is not always the case. All of a sudden I flashed back to music Fridays in Mr. Rice’s seventh grade English class when we dissected the song, as well as on another Friday, when “Father & Son” by Cat Stevens was the focus. Mr. Rice offered thirsty students not only a framework for analytical thinking but…