7 December: Teacher Appreciation Day

Today is Teacher Appreciation Day, so here are ten quotes about teachers.

1. The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don't tell you what to see. Alexandra K Trenfor
2. Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. Goethe
3. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. William Yeats
4. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great
5. The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it. Aristotle
6. A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke
7. One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. Philip Wylie
8. A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard. Eliphas Levi
9. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. CS Lewis
10. I touch the future. I teach. Christa McAuliffe

Golden Thread

Terry Kennedy is inexplicably and inexorably drawn to the small town of Fiveswood as a place to live and work after university. He is sure he has never visited the town before, but when he arrives there, it seems oddly familiar.

Fiveswood has a rich and intriguing history. Local legends speak of giants, angels, wolves, a local Robin Hood, but most of all, a knight in golden armour. Fiveswood's history also has a dark side - mysterious deaths blamed on the plague, a ghostly black panther, and a landslide which buried the smugglers' caves.

Terry buys an apartment in The Heights, a house which has been empty for decades, since the previous owner disappeared. Now he has finally been declared dead, developers have moved in and turned it into six flats. Terry has the odd feeling he has lived in this enigmatic house before. But that is not all. Since childhood, Terry has had recurring, disturbing dreams which have been increasing in frequency so that now, he has them almost every night. To his dismay, the people from his nightmares are his new neighbours.

Except, that is, for Eleanor Millbrook. She is refreshingly unfamiliar. After Terry saves her from a mysterious attacker, they become close. However, Terry's nightmares encroach more and more on his waking life, until they lead him to a devastating discovery about who he really is.

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