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Gifted Teaching: Thought and Action.

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From: Roeper Review
Date: 20010601
Author:Porath, Marion; Towers, Elizabeth

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907

While our contemporary language is gender neutral, Henry Brooks Adams nevertheless captured the essence of the power of teaching. A teacher's influence is wide reaching, for better or worse. The verb teach has, been part of the English language for over a millennium. The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition) records its use by King Alfred, circa 888. Over the centuries, usage included both teaching the subject (e.g., I teach Science.) and ...

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