Blooming brains

Thinking is not an easy art to teach.

Much easier are the so called "facts" that tumble around the universe, less easily mutated, but only worth what a thinker can do with them.

A good teacher reaches out and tickles his student's fancies and interests, opening doors, watering ideas and placing them in the light, doing whatever it takes to bring a brain into bloom.

Maneuvering around sacred cows, digging through worm holes of ignorance, lighting candles in caverns measureless to man, it is an endless attempt to share a love of learning so deep and so committed that it will not quit.

So here is to the teacher who stands alone, at the head of the class, dodging the tomatoes and jibes of those who truly do not know.