In this collection of tributes and memoirs spanning the entire history of this nation, outstanding Americans remember the teachers in their lives teachers that often changed their lives forever.
Editor John C. Board, a teacher himself for most of his career, describes his love of teaching and the labor of love that resulted in this inspiring anthology: When the untapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds. Learning begins. A special relationship is born. This book is about that relationship. It is about teachers who possess the art of liberation and about students who were liberated.
Contributing to the scores of tributes are Benjamin Rush, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Muir, Bernard Baruch, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Norman Rockwell, Lewis Armstrong, Aaron Copland, Marian Anderson, Burl Ives, Eudora Welty, Jimmy Carter, Shirley Chisholm, Daniel Inouye, Dan Rather, Floyd Paterson, Judy Collins, Barack Obama and many more.
