It starts with a brief outline scratched on the board, a road map for the lesson, and usually ends with some cliff-hanging comment about what's to come. While recognizing an instructor for his methodical and organized teaching style may not sound very inspiring, his students all agree there's real value in knowing where you're going. Flowers just laughs at such praise. Although I always know what I'm going to do when I go to class, I never know how people are going to receive it. Maybe that's what keeps him going, waiting to see which students will light up when a concept moves out of their notes and into their lives.
Education is a dangerous thing.
It will always challenge you to learn, grow and change. Those words are permanently stamped in Christopher Rose's mind. Many have come to know themselves better as they sat in that wise blue office, the one brimming with books and mementos. And on a recent day, a rather ghoulish green head with a transparent skull, on loan from his son. Shake it and bats flit about the brain.