Nicholas Kristof Affirms the Importance of Teachers

When I asked peace educator Irwin Abrams (Antioch College history professor, biographer of Nobel Peace laureates) how to answer those who ask how we know that peace education works, he had a ready answer. "We work for the unseen harvest," Irwin replied, then in his nineties. "There are consequences of the work we do." This article describes the unseen harvest of one teacher's extra-mile teaching. Keep up the great work, teachers! We work for the unseen harvest.

How Mrs. Grady Transformed Olly Neal

http://www.nytimes.com/  Nicholas Kristof

Teachers have the most important job in America. To understand why, listen to the story of Olly Neal, whose life was turned around by an English teacher.