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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20070817
Author:Kimberly Mayfield; Sandre R. Swanson, Kimberly Statham, Betty Olson-Jones &

IN 1907, Henry Brooks Adams, the Harvard professor, historian and pioneer of the seminar system, began circulating copies of "The Education of Henry Adams."

The book, which would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize, provided a sharp critique of the author's own life as well as educational practices at the turn of the century. One hundred years later, many of Adams's insights still ring true, as does his claim that "A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops."

As Adams noted, a teacher's ability to help shape the future is so vast as to be immeasurable. The ...

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