At an event for alums this evening, I reconnected with one of my first students at Lang. I've seen him recently, but since the last time he's grown a beard - and it's touched with grey! I have Lang ex-students going grey?! On the other hand, it was great to hear him describe what he remembered of studying with me. I assigned tough primary texts, but provided enough context that students were confident interpreting them - and felt they were entering the great conversation. That is what I was trying to do - how exciting to hear it so compellingly described. And to hear that it lives on, informing his own practice as a teacher of school teachers.
