I recently got a letter from a man who claims to have been one of my former students. Because I don’t specifically remember this student, I can’t say for sure, but I do have an excerpt from the letter I’d like to share with you: Dear Former Teacher, I was your student many years ago. […]

Mr. Iwegbu counted himself extra-ordinarily lucky. ‘Happy survival!’ meant so much more to him than just a current fashion of greeting fellow teachers in the first hazy days of a return to school. It went deep to his heart. He had come out of the summer with five inestimable blessings–his sanity, his wife Maria’s sanity […]