Heroism and Tragedy.

Heroism and Tragedy, Healing and Bereavement in the Student-Teacher Relationship

"You do not know this wretch and that is the reason you are not afraid. I who know him am terrified." [1]

At the finis of spring semester 2002, individual of my students died after a protracted battle with cancer. I met Sylvia during my inferior year of full-time teaching, and after the first class session, she explained that she might miss class occasionally suitable to chemotherapy treatments but that she didn't want other close examiners to know because she didn't wish to be treated differently. My husband had undergone