Mark Hopkins
From Willipedia
Mark Hopkins (1802-1887) was a graduate of Williams in the Class of 1824, which he entered from secondary school as a junior in 1822. . . . A skilled teacher in the Socratic tradition, he has been immortalized by the aphorism attributed to one of his former students, James A. Garfield: "The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other." A popular lecturer on moral and religious questions, for many years president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, he earned the love and respect of generations of Williams men by his qualities as a teacher and friend.
I've been thinking about teachers and what they do in their classes these days. I've been working with teachers to help them write about what they do. So why not create a (b)log, named after a teacher of note, where teachers could share stories about their work. Let's see what happens
