August 4, 2008

Saving Academic Lives
By Ike Shibley
I recently read two wonderful books on the medical profession, one by Jerome Groopman (How Doctors Think) and the other by Atul Gawande (Better). I’ve been thinking about how closely the tasks of teachers and doctors are aligned. Teachers have patients, although we generally call them students.

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