THANK YOU, DR. MORA:

 What's the Most Important Lesson You Learned from a Teacher? (Steve Silberman, October 5, 2011, Plos)

The words of a true teacher stay with us a long time, offering wise counsel in a confusing world and a potent inoculation against foolishness. Yet we rarely get to thank them explicitly. Perhaps only in mid-life, we realize that the career path we chose was set, at least in part, by the recognition, praise, or clarifying criticism of a respected teacher when we were young.

In that spirit, I've asked some of the brightest folks I know in science and media to answer this simple question: What's the most important lesson you learned from a teacher?

Our 9th/10th grade Biology teacher taught us darn near the only thing of any enduring usefulness we learned: wash your hands before you go to the bathroom, not after--you know where your junk has been, but your hands have been touching all kinds of germ-ridden surfaces all day.



Posted by oj at October 6, 2011 1:28 PM
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