Teachers and teaching have existed as long as humankind. Early man taught his children how to survive -- how to hunt, how to plant and harvest, how to provide shelter and protection, how to fight, how to raise his family in the tribal ways. Learning and teaching took a great stride forward in classical Greece 450 years before Christ with the arrival of Socrates and his brilliant student, Plato. The radiant light of learning was passed on from Plato to Aristotle, and the world ever since has been their beneficiary. Teaching and learning declined in the so-called Dark Ages and Medieval period, only to be revived by the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment. Public schools, colleges, and universities began to proliferate across the landscape of Western Civilization to cause the …