Nobody can inspire us like great teachers. They show us things about ourselves we can't see. They see 1 in us that others, including ourselves can't or won't see. 2 they give us the courage to find our own way and enough 3 to show us that what we feel 4 is anything but that.
When Bill Gates 5 Seattle's View Ridge Elementary School, he was a really unattractive and shy fourth grader. 6 a kindly librarian named Blanche Caffiere, he was 7 to come into his own in a way that would one day 8 the world forever. Gates sets the stage for this tale like this:
"When I first met Mrs Caffiere, she was the elegant and engaging school 9, and I was a shy fourth grader. I was 10 trying to go unnoticed, because I had some big shortcomings, like terrible handwriting…and I was trying to hide the 11 that I liked to read - something that was cool for girls but not for boys… Mrs Caffiere took me under her wing."
He was grateful to Mrs Caffiere for helping him become less 12 , which resulted from the true spirit of 13 teaching. First she encouraged Gates' enthusiasm for 14 by helping him explore it through the use of introspective (内省的) questions, 15 what he liked to read and why. Next, she would go out of her 16 to source books that were 17 more interesting and challenging for him. Finally, 18 he'd read them, she would sit down with him and ask him if he liked what he had read, and more 19 what he'd learned and why. "She basically 20 what I had to say." Gates recalled.
