Introduction and Rationale

For my curation project, I have decided to compile artefacts that help define me as a person and an educator through the thing I love more than almost anything in the world: books! Reading has always been an integral part of my life; most pictures of me as a child feature a pile of books not far from my person. It is not surprising then that English is my teachable (although I love teaching younger grades where you teach other subjects too).

Humans seek to make sense of the world through myth and literature. Fiction, whether poetry or prose, strikes past the physical world and touches the ephemeral, reaching higher truths about ourselves and our emotions, desires, and vices than we could ever figure out without it. For this reason, my artefacts are books that influence me as an educator and I think that other teachers should read too, because these tales impress the importance of the educator and our job more than me explicitly saying it ever could.