young mind and the love of young people, you won't be able to communicate it very well. We can teach people to be good teachers up to a relatively high degree, but I think teaching is also a talent. The really great teachers have this kind of X-ray vision that allows them to look at a young person and see right into that important intersection of emotion and intellect and see how to harness that emotional energy and intellectual effort and bring it to fruition. And that is a kind of X-ray vision that can't be taught. You either have it or you don't." -Jil Ker Conway (author/historian), "In Praise of Our Teachers"

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