You have a certain power as a teacher: people who would otherwise never hear a word you say suspend their rashness and listen. They seek out significance, because they trust it's there. You wouldn't, after all, be showing them something insignificant, right
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Thank you.
And thank you for the story as a whole.
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Really, it just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to elicit *that* reaction. You know the one. The one where the student, any student, suddenly understands. The one where their mouths form a barely audible 'oh...'. Where they suddenly have this moment of pure enlightenment, and a flood of new thoughts enters them and fills them and you can pretty much see the glow and feel the energy...
Mmm...
I love that moment of clarity, and the feeling that I had something to do with it.
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Choked me up a bit.
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