Teachers

Life brings teachers to me regularly. I admit to being on the look-out for them. Recently, I decided to read the memoirs of a deceased British film star, whom I had always regarded with fascination in his films. He wrote four books about his life and several novels. He was also in 60 films. And, though the memoirs were about a very different lifestyle than my own in many ways, I found both a soulmate and a teacher. He quoted Colette at one point. The quotation, paraphrased, went like this: One way of staying young is to continually be astonished by new things encountered in life. This summed up one of his discoveries about his own life. I have taken it in, and I plan to carry it with me. There is so much more to teaching and learning than the classroom or the textbook. Teachers are everywhere. And so are students.