Schapiro: The teachers who taught me to be a life-long learner
BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Updated
It was the research required in Mrs. Gelman’s American history class that helped nudge me into newspapers. Whether the topic was Lincoln and the Civil War or Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations, we students were often steered to the first draft of history: press accounts of individuals and events.
Four were men, five were women. Most were straight, some gay. One was Black. They were liberal, conservative and in between. All were clever and, usually, patient. They had one thing in common: They had me for a student.
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It was the research required in Mrs. Gelman’s American history class that helped nudge me into newspapers. Whether the topic was Lincoln and the Civil War or Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations, we students were often steered to the first draft of history: press accounts of individuals and events.
