Article: Teaching narrative: correspondence school and Waterford crystal.(student's gift to a teacher)

As a teacher - and like every other teacher - I stand at the intersection of many more vectors, variables, forces, emotions, ideals, aspirations, and accidents than I can even track, much less control. The moment of space and time I stand in now is only the forward crest of a wave that has been gradually shaped by a great many particular drops of experience, whose formative effects I was not vividly aware of at the time they happened.

Once I start thinking about it, however, I realize how different I am from the greener-than-grass, 27-year-old University of Chicago graduate student who, without five seconds' worth of teaching experience, suddenly found himself ...

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