Last summer New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about a book he picked up in a New Hampshire bookstore The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman The elderly woman describes what she calls living in a different dimension where her sons no longer seek her advice but rather carefully shield her

It does not take parents very long to realize that they teach their children not so much by what they say as by who they are. Their presence, their choices, their lives, their being speak to their children in the deepest way. The same can be said of true educators, whose teaching reaches beyond tech