I want everyone, not just new and veteran teachers, to see what is possible, not just what exists in teaching. Without joy and hope life is - lifeless I relate honestly some of my failures and worst mistakes as well as some of the greatest moments of the first fifteen years of my fifty years of teaching. When I tell these stories I still get thrilled or teary-eyed as my students outdid my fondest hopes. I began with little knowledge of what education could (should) be. I taught the way I had been taught. I talked and they sat quietly. My second year I was in a master's program in psychology...