<br><br><b>One teacher's long journey to a kind of enlightenment.</b><br><br>This is the best piece I've read on teaching in years. Not only does Guy nail issue after issue with laser-like precision but he manages to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted with humor and brief anecdotes avoiding both the puffed-up academic pose and the grim earnestness of the wounded and the self-righteous. I really love it. Bill Ayers Distinguished Professor of Education and author of To Teach The Journey of a Teacher Teaching Toward Freedom and Fugitive Days.