He Taught Me How to Think, Not What to Think

How teachers might help us renew our democracy

By David Bulla

Your column about Coach Willard reminded me of Dr. Walter Beale, one of my English professors at UNC-G. He was a conservative, certainly a Republican, although he never stated that in class or advising sessions. He was a Shakespeare scholar who had gotten his PhD at the University of Michigan. That English program is really difficult to ge…