,她總能有新的發現。在這裡,我想詳細地談談這位老師。

她總是鼓勵我們在課堂上揮著課本高聲討論,我們班成了全校最吵鬧的班級,然而她似乎沒有意識到。我們思索世界的萬事萬物,從不侷限於課本的內容。她給我們播種下好奇,我們收穫的則是真相和真理,就像攥在手掌中的螢火蟲發出的光。

她在教授基礎知識上失敗了,然而這些知識是必須學習的,因此,她被學校解聘了,這或許又是合乎常理的。然而,她給我們留下了對純粹知識的熱情,並激發了我們永遠也不會消失的好奇心。我曾經連簡單的數學題都不會做,然而,她使我認識到,抽象的數學就像音樂一般美好。她的離開令我們傷心,但是她在我們心中留下的光明從來也不曾逝去。

What Makes a Teacher

Anonymous

It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull and long school is。 The learning by memory of all the basic things one must know is a most incredible and unending effort。 Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don’t believe that; watch an illiterate adult try to do it。 School is not easy and it is not for the most part very much fun; but then; if youare very lucky; you may find a real teacher。 Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of my luck。 My first was a science and math teacher in high school; my second; professor of creative writing at Stanford; and my third was my friend and partner; Ed Ricketts。

I have e to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists。 It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit。

My three had these things in mon: they all loved what they were doing。 They did not tell; they catalyzed a burning desire to know。 Under their influence; the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unkno