I believe my role as a teacher is that of, as Plato put it, a midwife to knowledge. It is my job to both challenge and encourage students to attempt to come to terms with new knowledge within the context of the things they already know. In terms of the field of history, this means contextualizing material about the past such that it makes sense within a contemporary framework. It is my job to coax students to look within themselves to find the answers to even their deepest and most complex...