It was the end of the school year and a first grade teacher was saying good-bye to her students. One little boy said to her, "Teacher, I sure do like you. I'd like to stay in the first grade forever, but I've been promoted. Boy, I wish you knew enough to teach me in the second grade."1

So many people who are successful are able to look back at a person who first turned on a light inside the mind, who quickened the thinking, who first stirred the desire to learn. Behind every successful person there is the teacher. Most of us can look back across the years and remember such a person.

I can remember Sunday school teachers in my childhood years. I remember the songs we sang, the lady who played the piano and was so happy about it, the cookies they gave us, the warm feeling they created whic…