We Are Lucky People: My Teachers and the Teacher I Have Become

Teachers at all levels today are often portrayed in a negative light, as they are often on the news for cheating scandals or improper behavior, or they are misrepresented as people who pursued teaching as a way to have summer months off. Brown counters that view by showing these teachers as people who devoted their lives to students in an attempt not only to teach them a particular subject, but to affect their lives.

Whenever we talk about teacher education, we talk about skills teachers will need. We even lay out rubrics to evaluate teachers, assuming all good teaching fits in the same categories. Teaching is as much an art as it is a skill, though, and great teachers find ways to teach that spring forth from who they are rather than trying to make their teaching fit a particular set of objectives. By using a wide variety of teachers, Brown illustrates the wide variety of ways teachers have of connecting with their students.