The unique relationship between mentors and students informs the art of teaching and enhances the intellectual vitality of higher education and quality of teacher and student life. This collection of original essays presents autobiographical vignettes of important professors of our time. These essays reflect the appreciation of the authors-now successful academics-for their teachers/mentors, whose drive and creativity had such on influence on the careers of their students. No other collection presents such an autobiographical and biographical portrayal of college of education faculty. The essays examine what it means to be a professor in today's academia, with its erosion of the professoriate and the emergence of a questionable entrepreneurial pragmatism. The writers and their subjects explain their vision of the academic life sustained by a community and perpetuated through the lives of their teachers and their students, a tradition not only in teaching but also in mentoring.

Introduction Teaching, Mentoring and the Professoriate; Part 1 Three Generations: Teaching Expectations; Chapter 1 Charles Hubbard Judd: As I Came To Know Him, Ralph W. Tyler; Chapter 2 Lessons Learned from Ralph W. Tyler, David R. Krathwohl; Chapter 3 Benjamin Bloom, Values and the Professoriate, Lorin W. Anderson; Part 2 Standing for the Good: Professing and Social Responsibility; Chapter 4 Hilda Taba: The Congruity of Professing and Doing, Elizabeth Hall Brady; Chapter 5 Boyd H. Bode: The Professor and Social Responsibility, Kenneth Winetrout; Chapter 6 H. Gordon Hullfish: Teaching From the Fire Inside, Arthur Wirth; Chapter 7 Apprentice to Thorndike, Robert M.W. Travers; Part 3 Modeling the Passion To Understand; Chapter 8 From the Classrooms of Stanford to the Alleys of Amsterdam: Elliot Eisner as Pedagogue, Thomas E. Barone; Chapter 9 Doing Philosophy: Maxine Greene and the Pedagogy of Possibility, William Ayers; Chapter 10 In Class with Philip W. Jackson, David T. Hansen; Chapter 11 Laura Zirbes: A Teacher of Teachers, Paul R. Klohr; Part 4 Extending an Invitation To Share a Journey; Chapter 12 Harold Alberty, Teacher and Guide, Victor B. Lawhead; Chapter 13 Florence B. Stratemeyer: Teacher Educator for a Free People, Martin Haberman; Chapter 14 Alice Miel: Exemplar of Democracy Made Real, Louise Berman; Chapter 15 The Longevity of a Good Mentor: J.Harlan Shores, William H. Schubert; Part 5 Mutuality, Dignity, and Generosity of Spirit; Chapter 16 Hollis Caswell and the Practice of Education, Arthur W. Foshay; Chapter 17 Memories of Harold Rugg, Kenneth D. Benne; Chapter 18 William Heard Kilpatrick: Respecter of Individuals and Ideas, William Van Til; Chapter 19 William Van Til: The Consistent Progressive, John A. Beineke; Part 6 Civility, a Project Pertaining to the Public World; Chapter 20 George S. Counts as a Teacher: A Reminiscence, Lawrence A. Cremin; Chapter 21 The Dignity and Honor of Virgil Clift, Francine Silverblank; Chapter 22 Educating Civility: The Political Pedagogy of James B. Macdonald, Bradley J. Macdonald; epilo Professorial Dreams and Mentoring: A Personal View, Robert V. BulloughJr.;