


can never really know which of the young people clustered around the seminar table is someone whom the teacher or the text has touched so deeply, for whatever reason, that the lesson will live beyond the classroom, beyond you. One of the strange things about teaching is that you can never know what your effect will be on others can never know, if you have something to teach, who your real students will be, the ones who will take what you have to give and make it their own.
