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This afternoon's reading of excerpts from Paul and Alice's paper and the discussion that ensued stimulated me to think that education is not so much about teaching, learning, and grades as it is about an approach to learning that each person must develop for herself or himself.  As a teacher, I can be a role model and provide the tools, materials, and opportunities for my students to explore and revise the stories of their unconscious brains. As a teacher of a specific content, biology, I will provide the framework for the exploration in my course as I suspect the teachers of other content must. My job will also be to initiate the connections among the different frameworks whenever there is an opportunity to do so. I will also give thought to the widely used hero approach to education- talking only about those people who have achieved recognition in the content. While these role models are important, I will continue to ask students in the high school to share their experiences in science with the middle school students.