The Way They See It

In our race to understand or study people by groups, demographics, or classifications, none of those can ever tell you the story of the person right in front of you.

One of the under-appreciated blessings of being an educator is the inevitability of variety. You will quite literally never teach the same class twice, a fact manifest in how you will either modify and improve your curriculum, or will receive a new class full of new students to whom you’ve never taught the content. Time and experience have taught me to …