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A teacher is one who leads while walking backward. Even more, he is one who leads with the humble hope that he will one day be surpassed by those who are following him; for while a teacher may have traveled down the proverbial path a time or two before, he must nevertheless rediscover it with each new student. In this week’s episode we sit down with Mr. Joe Bissex to discuss the importance of humility in the classroom.  In the episode, we consider the following questions:  What is humility? What is it not?  What are some markers of humility?  What is the role of a teacher in the classroom?  What does it mean for a teacher to point the way?  As a teacher, how do you admit failure? Why is it important to do so? What is the connection between generosity and humility in the classroom? As you’ll hear, if a teacher remains humble and sincerely elicits his students’ contributions, it does not infrequently happen that what he had missed on his first ten treks, he may—with the fresh insight of a new student—discover