Teaching is to me what life was to Oliver Sacks, who was a doctor but foremost an eloquent writer. In an essay called "My Own Life" he wrote:
"I have been given much and I have given something in return. I have read, traveled, thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers"
Students hold a world of information that can renew and refresh, if we are engaged teachers. Like writers who read, and readers who write, there is much to learn from each other. We can travel to far off places and to long past ages. We can create a discourse within the four walls.
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