What I see in different shades of gray, from behind my reading glasses
My 10 year old taught me to do somersaults in the pool today. She was chuffed I could do it after drinking the pool a few times 🙂
And then she taught me how to do back-flips. I learnt that too. Much harder than the somersaults. I’m sore, and tired. And pleased. And very happy.
She was a good teacher. I may have been an okay student. Should ask her when she wakes up in the morning.
A Nobel Prize winner’s letter of gratitude to his teacher.
..when I heard the news, my first thought, after my mother, was of you. Without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching and example, none of all this would have happened.
Ben Orlin teaches mathematics. He explains what it fells like to be bad at math. Highly recommend this read.