My Favorite Teacher
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My favorite teacher had a specific quality—
she treated us as people, not as age,
she asked our opinions as if they mattered
and listened to the answer from the page.
She taught the subject but she taught it through us—
through our questions, our confusions, our surprise—
the lesson was not something she poured into us,
it was something we discovered with her eyes.
I have had better-qualified instructors,
I have had more articulate and precise—
but no one made me feel as capable as learning
as the one who taught me I could—and that sufficed.
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My favorite teacher had a specific quality—
she treated us as people, not as age,
she asked our opinions as if they mattered
and listened to the answer from the page.
She taught the subject but she taught it through us—
through our questions, our confusions, our surprise—
the lesson was not something she poured into us,
it was something we discovered with her eyes.
I have had better-qualified instructors,
I have had more articulate and precise—
but no one made me feel as capable as learning
as the one who taught me I could—and that sufficed.
